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MPCA guidance for evaluating when closed landfills may exit the postclosure care phase.
Volunteers across Minnesota’s 87 counties have been collecting pine needles from coniferous trees in their neighborhoods to help the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency better understand how to protect Minnesotans from PFAS pollution.
Northshore Mining Company has applied for updated wastewater and air quality permits for its Silver Bay taconite processing plant and Mile Post 7 tailings basin.
The Wild Rice River begins its course at Mud Lake in Minnesota's Clearwater County, and flows largely to the west through Norman and Mahnomen counties.
While hundreds of fish kills occur in Minnesota every year, mostly in lakes and ponds, fish kills on trout streams in southeast Minnesota are much less common.
BALMM emphasizes land use practices to improve or protect water quality, particularly in the areas of watershed management, aquifer protection and floodplain management.
Image Stormwater has an enormous impact on water quality in Minnesota, whether it's runoff from farm fields or from urban hardscapes. Rain and snow…
MPCA's compliance and enforcement program tracks how well wastewater treatment facilities are complying with their permits and takes enforcement actions when necessary.
The MPCA offers other types of funding for use by specialists or with more involved eligibility requirements. Funding for site cleanup: Supports the clean up of contaminated properties SSTS…
The Lake of the Woods lies on the border between the U.S. and Canada; the watershed covers 734,783 acres.
We Are Water MN travels to Leech Lake, where Raining White works to protect and restore manoomin, or wild rice.
Air sensors are instruments that measure air quality conditions in near real time.
The U.S. EPA approved Minnesota's Statewide Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load study in March 2007.
Find out what’s being done in Minnesota’s watersheds to protect and improve water quality.
In Minnesota, wastewater treatment operators must be certified to ensure that facilities meet operational requirements.
MPCA's Closed Landfill Program is a voluntary program established in 1994 to properly close, monitor, and maintain Minnesota's closed municipal sanitary landfills.
In 2010, the MPCA began receiving public inquiries about projects to mine silica sand for use in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a drilling method used for natural gas and oil wells.
Information about a variety of initiatives in Minnesota related to PFAS pollution.
Details for solid waste management facility permit issuance and reissuance.
Salt is commonly over-applied, sending too much chloride into our waterways and wreaking havoc on fish and other wildlife.