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Designing stormwater systems to handle the challenges of climate change differs in every community across the state. Here’s how one community is meeting that challenge
Minnesota industrial stormwater permittees in certain industries to monitor for PFAS in their stormwater runoff or snow.
The MPCA certifies Minnesota municipal, government, or industrial laboratories that are used to comply with National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)/State Disposal System (SDS) permits or for water quality work for agency programs.
Enbridge Energy is continuing restoration work around its new Line 3 crude oil pipeline across Minnesota. The new line replaces an aging Line 3 and began operating in October 2021, after Enbridge completed the project’s construction phase.
The kind of permit a facility needs depends on how much air pollution the facility could emit based on its equipment or processes.
Increased rainfall from climate change damages river water quality, which in turn damages fishing and recreation.
Construction and interim feedlot permit forms
As part of the MN Cup competition, MPCA offers a Sustainable Chemistry Prize of $10,000 to technologies and products that were designed using one or more green chemistry principles or that demonstrate safer or more sustainable chemistry than those already on the market.
A project to address high levels of suspended sediment in the Minnesota River and the South Metro portion of the Mississippi River.
Volkswagen settlement dollars are funding the replacement of older, dirtier diesel engines with newer, cleaner equipment.
New major-emitting industrial facilities and major modifications of existing facilities must obtain a permit before construction and include the best pollution-control technology available if they significantly increase emissions.
The Snake River begins its 50-mile course in Marshall County and drains an area of 611,800 acres. The Snake River Watershed lies within Marshall, Polk, and Pennington Counties in NW Minnesota.
The Clean Water Act established the framework for creating water quality standards and continues to help us protect Minnesota's prized lakes and rivers.
The Burnsville Sanitary Landfill (BSL) will expand to accommodate the growing municipal waste needs of the Twin Cities metro area. The expansion is part of the landfill’s long-term plan to extend the useful life of the landfill to 2062.
The MPCA is working on both short and long-term solutions to the growing waste problems in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality certified farms have added more than 2,000 new conservation practices, including over 110,000 acres of new cover crops that protect Minnesota’s waters.
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.
Controlling phosphorus is an important part of protecting Minnesota waters.
Finding ways to keep stormwater on land and let it soak into the ground can lessen the negative effects on water quality from stormwater.
The MPCA regulates most aspects of livestock management including the location, design, construction, operation, and management of feedlots and manure-handling facilities.