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Free training- Turfgrass Maintenance with Reduced Environmental Impacts on 7/19/12
This six hour training offers information about best practices for managing turfgrass (mowing, seeding, fertilizer and pesticide application, and more).
These practices will help you save money, time, and the environment. Registration is limited to 40 participants. Priority registration will be given to businesses and individuals located or working in the MWMO. More Information Registration Brochure
The MWMO has moved!
The MWMO has moved to its new facility at 2522 Marshall Street
NE. Although the staff is housed there, due to continuing construction work, the building will not
officially open until sometime in the spring.
The MWMO is looking forward to welcoming visitors after our official grand opening. Watch for that date here on this website!
Learn more about the building and read recent news stories at: www.mwmo.org/newbuilding.html
Brand new! Watch this short video about how you can control snow and ice without polluting our waters
Did you ever think about what happens to the thousands of tons of salt that is applied to roads, parking lots and sidewalks in winter? Most of it ends up in our lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands.
As a result, clean water in the Twin Cities is in jeopardy.
Watch this new video, Improved Winter Maintenance: Good Choices for Clean Water to learn a few easy things about tools, techniques and products that you can use to keep your driveways and sidewalks safe AND protect our waters. No salt, or very little salt,
is needed if you've done a good job of snow removal.
To find the video on YouTube.com type in mwmovideo or Improved Winter Maintenance Good Choices for Clean Water.
You are an important person. With good choices, winter maintenance will become easier for you and help protect our water resources. Please share this information with your friends, family and colleagues. Thank you!
The MWMO's Winter 2011 edition of The Drift is available!
Read the newsletter. You can sign up to receive an electronic copy of future newsletters. Send an email to contacts@mwmo.org, and write "subscribe to e-Drift" in the subject line.
Next Meeting
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room
Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO)
2522 Marshall Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
For information on other MWMO meetings, click on Meetings.
KARE 11's Grow with KARE features salt reduction message
Check out the Grow with KARE segment on salt reduction. It features a portion of the MWMO's video Improved Winter Maintenance: Good Choices for Clean Water. http://www.kare11.com/life/grow/article/961246/7/Grow-with-KARE-Road-salt-reduction
Check Out the MWMO's 2011-2021 Watershed Management Plan!
To view the MWMO's new plan, click on 2011-2021 Watershed Management Plan.
Citizen Advisors Wanted!
The MWMO is looking for members of the community to serve on the
Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC). This group serves at the request of the MWMO's Board of Commissioners and assists the MWMO in the annual budget process,
reviewing Stewardship Fund grant proposals, and watershed planning. Open seats include: Lauderdale, North Minneapolis, and Southwest Minneapolis. Find out more
Copies of The Nature of Water DVD are available
The Nature of Water DVD was created to increase environmental knowledge
and water stewardship in Southeast Asian communities in Minneapolis.
The video includes a 12-minute main feature about water and pollution
prevention and several bonus features about raingardens, household
hazardous waste, watersheds and more. Call Jenny at (612) 465-8780
ext. 202 for more information on how to receive copies.
New Training
Video! Winter Maintenance for Small Sites
Visit the Road Salt Education page on
the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's website to view a twenty minute training video on
winter maintenance for small sites. Topics include: deicer selection, tool selection, application rates and more!
MWMO's New Building & Grounds
Visit www.mwmo.org/newbuilding.html for
more information on the MWMO's new building and grounds.
Check back often for building updates and photos.
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