Project Contact: Nancy Stowe

The new Columbia Heights Library incorporates a range of features that capture and treat polluted stormwater runoff.

An underused parking lot was converted into pollution-filtering rain garden and a learning laboratory for middle school students.

The City of Minneapolis and the MWMO partnered to install an underground infiltration system in this heavily industrialized area near the University of Minnesota.

The Interchange, a transit hub at Target Field, was built with a number of features that capture, clean and reuse stormwater runoff.

A series of rain gardens transformed manufacturer 7-SIGMA's parking lot into a new model of stormwater management on commercial properties.

The Rose — the fourth and final phase of construction of the South Quarter housing development — includes a stormwater capture and reuse system that irrigates the community garden.

The MWMO partnered with the City of Columbia Heights to improve both the water-retaining and water-quality capabilities of a key stormwater holding pond. New additions include a retaining wall, re-graded slopes, a lift station and an underground iron-enhanced filtration system.

This ravine behind the Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School in Fridley was discharging sediment into the backwaters of the Mississippi River. The MWMO and its partners restored the 220-ft. long ravine in 2014.

The Grace Center's parking lot and asphalt playground were removed to create 60,000 square feet of new bioretention areas planted with native plants.