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Request for Professional Services for 2025–2026

The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) uses outside consultants to provide professional services in a number of areas, including but not limited to: Planning and Engineering, and Legal Services. Firms interested in providing services to the MWMO for 2025–26 should submit a...

MWMO grants funds for 5 Northeast projects

Northeast is the beneficiary of five grants awarded recently by the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) for environmental work. These green infrastructure projects capture, treat and/or reuse stormwater runoff. Grants range from $3,000 to $550,000. All of these projects will begin this year.
May 3, 2019

Northeaster - May 3, 2019

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Restoring Native Landscape at Kasota Ponds

(…) Funding for the project came from a grant from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization. All of this is part of the SAPCC’s work to create a native pollinator-friendly pond buffer that also assists in improving water quality. 
April 21, 2019

Park Bugle - April 21, 2019

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Spring break starts out soggy for UMN area

Nick Busse, communications principal with the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, said localized flooding is often caused by plugged storm drains. The City of Minneapolis works to clear storm drains in order to avoid this kind of flooding.
March 25, 2019

The Minnesota Daily - March 23, 2019

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Watershed management training concludes

Dimapur, March 16 (EMN): A two-day training and workshop on “Hydro-meteorological monitoring and watershed management” concluded on March 16 at department of land resources’ resource centre, Ruzaphema, Dimapur. The training was organised by the land resources department in collaboration with University of Minnesota and Mississippi watershed management organisation, USA.
March 17, 2019

Eastern Mirror - March 17, 2019

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Collective efforts solve multiple issues, advance reuse

Within the US state of Minnesota's new Towerside Innovation District, a testing ground for experimental approaches to city planning, the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization is at the helm of a unique approach to stormwater management that hinges on cooperation between neighbors.
March 12, 2019

Stormwater Management - Spring 2019

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Stevenson kindergarten students ‘save seeds’ for rain garden

On a mission to fight pollution, Stevenson kindergarten students kicked off a school-wide initiative as they ‘saved seeds’ on Jan. 11.
February 5, 2019

Fridley Sun Focus - Feb. 4, 2019

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Columbia Golf Course gets stormwater funds

The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) will begin to address flooding issues and water quality in Northeast Minneapolis, thanks to $800,000 from the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR).
January 23, 2019

Northeaster - January 23, 2019

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Golf course upgrades meant to reduce pollution in Mississippi

A new project is meant to keep polluted water out of the Mississippi River, and reduce flooding in Northeast Minneapolis and Columbia Heights. The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) has been awarded $800,000 from the Minnesota Board of Soil and Water Resources...
January 3, 2019

KSTP - Jan. 2, 2019

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$800,000 Grant to Help Reduce Pollution in Northeast Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS — The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) announced today that it has been awarded $800,000 from the Minnesota Board of Soil and Water Resources (BWSR) to address water quality and flooding issues in Northeast Minneapolis.
January 2, 2019

MWMO News Release - January 2, 2019

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