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The majority of monitored streams and lakes in the Blue Earth River Watershed in south-central Minnesota are not meeting water quality standards.

The MPCA monitors water quality in rivers and streams is several different ways around the state.

A project to address excess sediment and turbidity in the Mississippi River, from Fort Snelling at St. Paul to upper Lake Pepin at Red Wing, based on a site-specific standard developed by the MPCA and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

MPCA staff studied the river during this summer's extreme drought conditions to see if tighter limits on phosphorus are protecting aquatic life.

The Upper Iowa River is a 156-mile-long tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Mower County in southeastern Minnesota near the Iowa border. It then flows south through three Iowa counties before flowing into the Mississippi. It drains nearly 641,000 acres (1,005 square miles).

Application forms and instructions for applying for wastewater permits.

BALMM emphasizes land use practices to improve or protect water quality, particularly in the areas of watershed management, aquifer protection and floodplain management.

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. The cause of most lake/pond fish kills is believed to be from natural causes. In trout stream, fish kills are usually related to the discharge or runoff of pollutants from the landscape.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), the Department of Agriculture (MDA), and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) are launching a new public awareness campaign in May to help protect…

The MPCA developed the Wastewater Nitrogen Reduction and Implementation Strategy to decrease the wastewater sector’s nitrogen loads for the protection and restoration of bodies of water in and downstream of Minnesota.

Mesabi Metallics is currently constructing a new taconite mine and taconite pellet production facility on the site of the former Butler Taconite Mining Company facility near Nashwauk.

Minnesota's large rivers — the Mississippi, Minnesota, Rainy, Red, and St. Croix — are prized for recreation, and serve as water supplies and engines of commerce. They also connect us to other states…

Mike Hirst Mike Hirst lives in northwest Minnesota, near the border between the U.S. and Canada. Like many locals, Mike likes to fish on Lake of the Woods, which…