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If you want to submit a complaint or report a non-emergency environmental incident, use this online complaint form instead.

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What is "What's in my neighborhood?"What's in my neighborhood provides a wide variety of environmental information about your community.Search for:properties that were previously contaminated and…

Upper Mississippi River bacteria TMDL

A TMDL addressing excess bacteria in 22 stream reaches and protection strategies for 29 stream and river reaches in the Upper Mississippi River watershed.

Remediation guidance and resources

The MPCA has developed guidance on a number of topics to assist real estate developers, environmental engineers, remediation consultants, and others in addressing brownfields and contaminated sites.

Information requests

MPCA keeps its public data easily accessible for convenient use.

Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community, Two Rivers High School among recipients of $1 million in MPCA grants for waste reduction and reuse

A recent $1 million MPCA grant round will fund projects focused on waste reduction and reuse. To invest in projects that will continue to offer benefits to Minnesotans well into the future, this grant round prioritized proposals that would replace single-use items with reusables or help build a trained repair workforce in Minnesota.

Lower Minnesota River

The Lower Minnesota River Watershed includes the lowest reach of the Minnesota River and flows into the Mississippi at Fort Snelling. The second-largest watershed in the Minnesota River Basin, it covers 1,760 square miles, divided by the Minnesota River itself.

Land quality

Healthy land and soil is essential for thriving Minnesota communities. It drives economic development and opportunity, improves our health, and contributes to clean water for drinking and recreation…

Wastewater permit fees

Minnesota businesses, organizations, and municipalities seeking or holding MPCA wastewater permits are charged two basic types of permit fees: application fees and annual fees.

Large river monitoring

The health of Minnesota's large rivers is a reflection of how well we are protecting overall water quality.

Recycling at your business

Recycling is good for Minnesota's economy. It supports more than 60,000 jobs in our state, paying almost $3.4 billion in wages and adds nearly $15.7 billion to Minnesota's economy.

Progress made toward water quality goals; public invited to comment on Minnesota Nutrient Reduction Strategy

The MPCA has released the draft 2025 Minnesota Nutrient Reduction Strategy for public review and comment.

Forecast calls for involving farmers to meet climate change challenge

The Olmsted Soil and Water Conservation District's Soil Health Farm demonstrates how farmers can benefit from practices that also provide resilience to climate change.

AERMOD-ready meteorological data

Ready-to-run meteorological data suitable for AERMOD.

New standards for wood-burning stoves and boilers

Shopping for a new wood stove? Remember that new stoves and outdoor boilers must be certified to new 2020 emission standards to be sold in Minnesota.

American Crystal Sugar fined $16,000 for failing to sample and discharging high levels of wastewater contaminated with feces

The MPCA fines American Crystal Sugar in Moorhead $16,000 for wastewater violations.