Designing stormwater systems to handle the challenges of climate change differs in every community across the state. Here’s how one community is meeting that challenge
This community meeting will have two sessions covering the same content: 3:30-5 p.m. and 6:30-8 p.m.
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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) today announced a new $35 million grants program to prepare Minnesota’s aging stormwater infrastructure for climate change. Examples of projects that are eligible for funding through this program include stormwater retention ponds, improvements to streets to support rainwater drainage, increasing the capacity of stormwater pipes, planting rain gardens, and others.
Participants will learn about the impacts of salt on the environment, the fundamentals of Smart Salting and take a deeper look into salt and snow storage best management practices and requirements.
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Salt is commonly over-applied, sending too much chloride into our waterways and wreaking havoc on fish and other wildlife.
First in a series of community conversations on implementing the new cumulative impacts law.
The MPCA’s Smart Salting program helps cut down on chloride pollution by training snowplow drivers and municipalities to use less salt on the roadways.
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Xcel Energy Inc. began storing groundwater contaminated with tritium in aboveground storage tanks before obtaining a required permit at its Monticello nuclear power plant.
The MPCA added three bodies of water to the impaired waters list for PFAS contamination. Which are they? How did they get polluted? And how much PFAS does it take to contaminate a body of water?
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Circle K Stores Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) and Holiday Stationstores LLC (Bloomington, Minn.) failed to properly test, report, and fix or replace corrosion protection equipment between 2019 and 2022 at convenience stores in Northfield, Owatonna, Pine City, Rochester, and Walker.