Plum Creek payoff
Township supervisor Jerry Finch integrated knowledge gained in the WRC's Watershed Specialist course to inform monitoring of the impaired water in Plum Creek, leading to removal of Plum Creek from the MPCA's Impaired Waters list.
Estimating annual chloride use in Minnesota
In Minnesota, there are 50 water bodies that exceed water quality standards for chloride and many wells have also demonstrated increasing trends for chloride, particularly the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (TCMA). Additionally, many municipalities in the state have high chloride levels in their wastewater treatment plant effluent and reasonable potential to exceed chloride water quality standards.
Minnesota Water Resources Conference set for October 18-19
Wetlands, drainage and lessons learned from the Flint water crisis leads 2016 Minnesota Water Resources Conference. Director Jeff Peterson is quoted.