Permits help the MPCA protect the environment. A permit sets detailed goals for specific activities, including:
- Preventing, controlling, or cleaning up pollution
- Limiting releases of pollutants
- Directing construction or operation of a facility
- Controlling storage, collection, transport, and processing of waste
12096: Water permit basics videos
Water permit basics
This series of four short videos explains the basics of water permits and the important roles of select stakeholders in Minnesota.
The MPCA's water monitoring data are critical to writing reasonable and accurate permits. Our permit writers have to know the condition of water that will receive a facility's discharges to set appropriate limits in that facility's permit.
Use What's in My Neighborhood to find information about regulated facilities in a specific area. To see sites of a given type, choose the text search option, then select the appropriate activity type:
- Construction stormwater projects
- Feedlots
- Industrial stormwater dischargers
- MS4 projects (municipal separate storm sewer system)
- Wastewater dischargers