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Street trees along Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis.

To Protect Its Greenery, Downtown Minneapolis Turns to Smart Salting

Frequent visitors to Downtown Minneapolis are all too familiar with the crunch of salt granules beneath their feet. Downtown sidewalks and plazas are often covered in ice-melt products all winter […]
December 26, 2019
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The downtown Minneapolis skyline, as seen from the Stone Arch Bridge. (Credit: Nick Busse)

Using Science and Engineering to Clean Up Downtown Minneapolis’ Dirty Stormwater Runoff

It’s spring, one of our dirtiest times of year in the stormwater management world. It’s the time when all that trash and pollution that gathered on the landscape and got […]
April 10, 2019
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