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MWMO Newsletter — December 2024 — Watershed Wrapped Edition 🤝💧

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University of Minnesota Teams Up with Organization to Fight Water Pollution

In the state of 10,000 lakes, it's important to have clean water. Right now the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization is partnering with the University of Minnesota to try and figure out where pollutants are coming from now. 
March 24, 2018

KSTP-TV - March 23, 2018

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Part of the solution to water pollution

The Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District has partnered with four local watershed organizations — the Vermillion River Joint Powers Organization, the Black Dog Watershed Management Organization, the Lower Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization and the Eagan-Inver Grove Heights Watershed Management Organization — to create the Landscaping for Clean Water program.
March 22, 2018

Sun This Week - March 22, 2018

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A MnDOT snow plow. (Credit: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency)

Three graphs that show how melting snow carries chloride into our waterbodies

March is here, which means snow-melt, more snow and (hopefully soon) more snow-melt. Last week, with the warmer temperatures during the day, you probably noticed the snow piles in your […]
March 8, 2018
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An aerial view of Hall's Island in November 2017.

Rebuilding Hall’s Island to improve habitat and ecology along the Mississippi River

It’s not every day you get to watch an island being built in the middle of a city. But that’s what we did over the winter here at the MWMO. […]
February 28, 2018
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Screen shot from the "Watershed" music video.

Everything you need to know about chloride pollution, in the form of a music video

By day, Mark Pedelty, Tim Gustafson and Robert Poch are professors at the University of Minnesota. By night, the trio form The Hypoxic Punks, an environmentally conscious folk-punk band spreading […]
February 15, 2018
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Hawthorne EcoVillage Apartments took a village to build it

It took 10 years and complex financing, but a 75-unit affordable and sustainable housing development is finally open on a busy corner of north Minneapolis.
February 8, 2018

Finance and Commerce - Feb. 8, 2018

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(Next) Best Paddling Towns: Minneapolis, MN

(…) Pull over at the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization right before the Lowry Bridge to secure your boat and walk to Betty Dangers, a fun local bar with a ferris wheel and mini-golf course…
January 27, 2018

Canoe and Kayak - Jan. 27, 2018

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Annie Young, longtime Minneapolis Park Board member and a blunt advocate for conservation, dies

Annie Young, pictured during a break from an arts event she was participating in at the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization in Minneapolis in April 2015…
January 23, 2018

Star Tribune - Jan. 23, 2018

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Neighbors provide education on road salt

(…) Knaeble, a master water steward, said he got the idea for the campaign from a meeting with city officials, including Council Member Kevin Reich, who chairs the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization…
January 18, 2018

Southwest Journal - Jan. 18, 2018

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