Tag: winter

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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 […]
December 2, 2024
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Stormwater street graphic showing projected pollutant reductions at Northrup King.

MWMO Newsletter – December 2021 – News, Project Updates, Grant Opportunities, Fall Yard Care and More

In This Issue: Year in Review; Snow and Ice Control; Northrup King Project; New Staff; Upcoming Events; and More Read Full Newsletter
December 29, 2021

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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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Uptown Wedge resident Joe Knaeble.

The Iceman Cometh—Sidewalk Salt Pollutes Our Lakes and Streams

Images and story courtesy Clean Water Minnesota. Uptown Wedge resident Joe Knaeble is concerned with a problem that is mostly invisible: increasing levels of salt in groundwater due to its […]
January 13, 2017
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Woman shoveling snow.

How to Fight Snow and Ice Without Polluting

I was recently cleaning out my garage and came across a container of a certain “environmentally safe” ice-melt product. I bought it years ago — long before I started working […]
November 17, 2016
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