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Each year, MPCA hires seasonal positions to assist with biological monitoring of streams and wetlands during the summer months.
Financial assistance for SSTS work is targeted to units of local government.
MPCA investigation found stormwater permit violations that occurred during a construction project in 2025, with sediment-laden stormwater entering a stream at a construction site in Chaska.
In its online format, Minnesota's Stormwater Manual offers the latest in stormwater management, including BMPs, models, and regulations.
The health of Minnesota's large rivers is a reflection of how well we are protecting overall water quality.
The MPCA is collaborating with many federal, Tribal, state, and local partners to clean up contaminated sites in the Duluth harbor and St. Louis River.
Permit addresses the most common causes of contaminated groundwater, including releases of petroleum, volatile organic compounds, and other hazardous substances.
“Area C” is the name given to Ford Motor Company’s former industrial waste dump on the floodplain of the Mississippi River, at the base of the bluff below the former Twin Cities Assembly Plant in Saint Paul.
Initial screening information for a contaminant of emerging concern, triclocarban.
Pesticide NPDES permit steps to compliance Step 4: Report adverse pesticide incidents
Information about the work to clean up the pollution from over 100 years of unregulated development and industrial practices.
Volkswagen settlement dollars are funding the replacement of older, dirtier diesel engines with newer, cleaner equipment.
Pesticide NPDES Permit Steps to Compliance Step 2: submit a notice of intent
A TMDL addressing excess bacteria in 22 stream reaches and protection strategies for 29 stream and river reaches in the Upper Mississippi River watershed.
We Are Water MN travels to Leech Lake, where Raining White works to protect and restore manoomin, or wild rice.
Alliance Building Corporation failed to prevent liquid washout of waste during construction at the Sleepy Eye Apartments.
Dentists in Minnesota must meet federal and state requirements to limit the amount of mercury in their wastewater.
We hope to make your monitoring experience as easy and enjoyable as possible. If you have any questions, or don’t find the resources you need, please contact us. 13456: Volunteer water…
A new planning effort in northwest Minnesota takes a basin-wide approach to reducing the state's phosphorous contributions to the Red River, and to Canada's Lake Winnipeg.
Excess nitrate remains a long-term challenge to manage. In our lakes, rivers, and streams, it is toxic to fish and other aquatic life. In drinking water, it can pose a risk to human health,…