Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

If you live or work in a recently flooded area and come across a ruptured petroleum or gas line or find petroleum product in a building or outdoors, notify the Minnesota Duty Officer.

Lack of sufficient erosion and sediment control structures allowed sediment-laden stormwater to enter the Rum River.

The initial survey on wetland quality showed that the plant communities in nearly half of the wetlands were in poor condition, while the macroinvertebrate populations such as insects, leeches, and snails, fared much better.

Since a recent news story went out about a man selling mercury on Craigslist, the MPCA and county hazardous waste collection centers have fielded dozens of calls from people wanting to turn in the silvery metal.

The public comment period runs through July 18, 2012.

The new water treatment plant will remove vinyl chloride and other pollutants from water from the city of Edina’s wells.

Comments must be submitted in writing to the MPCA by 4:30 p.m. on July 25.

Coal tar residues that can contaminate stormwater ponds are becoming a thing of the past thanks to voluntary phase-outs by Minnesota business leaders like Eagan-based Jet-Black International.

Media event showing a newly sealed driveway with MPCA Commissioner John Linc Stine and the Co-owners of Jet-Black International.

Comments must be in writing and received by 4:30 p.m. on July 11, 2012.

The estimated cost savings to the state are $150,000 annually.

The MPCA reminds people that a type of algae called “blue-green” algae can harm pets, livestock and even people.

Comments on the report must be in writing and received by 4:30 p.m. on June 27, 2012. 

Comments on the Environmental Assessment Worksheet, which must be in writing, are due to the MPCA by 4:30 p.m. on June 13.

Exposure to elemental mercury can damage human health because it is toxic to the kidneys and the nervous system.

As part of an agreement with the MPCA, Flame Metals will pay a $10,000 penalty for the violations, and will also be required to make a $90,000 investment in a new environmental project at its facility.

The work is financed through the Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment, which was passed by voters in 2008.

More than $1.1 million in enforcement penalties were issued from these cases, but more than $1 million of that came from two cases.

Through the Surface Water Assessment Grant program, seven Minnesota volunteer programs will receive funding for 2012-2013.

The facility violated state dust emission limits in 2010 and 2011.

The meeting is scheduled from 6:00 – 8:15 p.m. at the Good Fellowship Club at 1242 88th Avenue West, Duluth.

The Sibley County landowner burned a house and other structures in October 2011.

The 45-day comment periods for the EAW and the draft RCRA permit run from April 30 through June 15, 2012.

Comments are being accepted through May 29 on the study, which includes the Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Watonwan rivers that flow through 11 counties in south-central Minnesota.

The Bushmills facility discharges wastewater to Judicial Ditch number 17, which flows about 10 miles to the middle Fork of the Crow River.