Mississippi Watershed Management Organization
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Education Program
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MWMO Education and Outreach Program Friends of the Mississippi River and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board are working with the MWMO to provide community education through water quality workshops and storm drain stenciling. Using hands on activities, community volunteers, students and local residents will learn about the importance of preventing polluted runoff from entering the storm sewers system. Approximately 700 volunteers will stencil 1,200 storm drains and distribute 4,600 educational doorhangers with water pollution prevention tips to local homes and businesses. Each group or classroom that stencils will receive an educational presentation on non-point source pollution. Two educator workshops will introduce teachers to the project, provide background on the Mississippi River and water pollution, and offer curriculum ideas that will enhance the stenciling activity. Two community workshops will be given that focus on non-point source pollution and ways to reduce it through alternative lawn care and landscaping methods. |