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December 02, 2024

Can Pickle Juice Save Our Roads and Waters? Exploring Brine Use in Winter Road Maintenance 

When winter grips Minnesota, icy roads pose serious safety risks. From car crashes to slowed commutes, slippery streets affect everyone’s safety and mobility. To combat slippery streets, road maintenance teams have historically relied on rock salt. While effective, this...

Hall’s Island facelift brings new water access to NE Mpls.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on Tuesday announced a $6.7 million construction project to restore Hall's Island starting next month.
October 24, 2017

MPR News - Oct. 24, 2017

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Study aims to track sources of downtown runoff

A new Mississippi Watershed Management Organization study is aiming to better understand the types and amounts of pollutants that come from different surfaces in downtown Minneapolis.
October 19, 2017

Downtown Journal - Oct. 19, 2017

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Artists create ‘Interspecies Postal Service’ to monitor climate change

Pink mailboxes are the new blue U.S. Postal Service mailboxes. At Franconia Sculpture Garden, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, and the UMN Ecology Department Building, an artist project called "Transition Habitats" by Elliot Montgomery and Chris Woebken offers another portal into the affects of climate change. 
October 6, 2017

Star Tribune - Oct. 6, 2017

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MWMO Newsletter – Fall 2017

The latest news and updates from the MWMO.
October 6, 2017

Email Newsletter - October 5, 2017

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East Side Water Watch students holding a dragonfly.

East Side Neighborhood Services youth become ‘water watchers’

Like many of us, James Taborda-Whitt hadn’t spent much time thinking about the value of the Mississippi River and its surrounding watershed. Sure, it’s one of the largest rivers in […]
October 5, 2017
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A rain simulator in use near U.S. Bank Stadium.

Which surfaces generate the most pollution in downtown Minneapolis?

You can’t stop pollution unless you know where it’s coming from. And in the case of downtown Minneapolis, it could be coming from seemingly anywhere. The city’s dense urban center […]
October 2, 2017
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Master Water Stewards and community volunteers stenciling a storm drain.

Master Water Stewards program develops community leaders for clean water

Master Water Stewards Sam Talbot and Marilyn Jones recently took advantage of a National Night Out get-together in the Seward neighborhood in south Minneapolis to engage and educate the community […]
September 25, 2017
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City of Minneapolis erosion monitoring interns driving to a construction site.

In Minneapolis, interns patrol the streets for signs of pollution

Preventing pollution isn’t easy in a city as large and highly developed as Minneapolis. The city has 28,000 storm drains, and each one provides a pathway for pollutants to travel […]
September 19, 2017
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An aerial view of flooding in Port Arthur, Texas, on August 31, 2017.

After Hurricane Harvey, time to plan for a changing climate?

It’s not everyday that arcane subjects like land use and zoning find their way into the national news cycle, but these are extraordinary times. The flooding that followed in the […]
September 12, 2017
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