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The Upper/Lower Red Lake Watershed covers more than 1.2 million acres and is home to Upper and Lower Red Lakes, the two largest bodies of water within the state.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is planning to add sites in New Hope, Saint Paul, and Rochester to the state's Permanent List of Priorities (PLP). Members of the public are invited to provide comments.
MPCA permits are required to both build and operate landfills in Minnesota.
This advisory board includes 18 individuals representing a wide range of impacted parties under the Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act.
Requirements for discharges from a project site and/or management control site(s).
A project to address high levels of suspended sediment in the Minnesota River and the South Metro portion of the Mississippi River.
The MPCA identified a series of policy recommendations for the optimal management of decommissioned solar panels.
In rules, an incorporation by reference states that the contents of another document are part of the rule, even though the text of the referenced document does not appear in the rule itself.
Septic system owners are responsible for system maintenance. Properly maintaining a septic system will extend its life.
MPCA wastewater staff assigned by county.
Increasing organics collection and processing infrastructure is necessary to meet statewide recycling goals
Rundown of all the PFAS legislative wins from the most recent legislative session.
Minnesota industrial stormwater permittees in certain industries to monitor for PFAS in their stormwater runoff or snow.
The kind of permit a facility needs depends on how much air pollution the facility could emit based on its equipment or processes.
For Katy Backes Kozhimannil, water is intrinsically tied to her life’s work. As a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota with a focus on rural communities, she has made it her life…
MPCA and the Minnesota Department of Health continue to sample private residential wells, municipal wells, and non-community public wells (e.g., small businesses, churches, schools) in the East Metro area for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Residential wood burning has been increasing in Minnesota, both for home heating and recreation.
A program to provide sustainable, longer-term funding a select number watersheds to make measurable and visible progress.
Karst near Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo, host of the We Are Water MN traveling exhibit. Phil George, who lives in rural Byron, Minnesota, has always felt a deep…
The MPCA has a mobile air monitoring program that allows the agency to respond faster to community air quality concerns across the state. The mobile air monitor collects data in areas where permanent…