Content Type: Blog Post

Students painting a watershed trash can mural.

Art project inspires community to protect the Mississippi River

She’d had enough! Rebecca Krueger, a Columbia Heights resident, artist, and art educator, was thoroughly frustrated with the amount of trash she found in her neighborhood. Blowing litter and other […]
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Parishioners at the rain garden ceremony at Judson Memorial Baptist Church.

Church’s rain garden project empowers and educates all ages

Judson Memorial Baptist Church, a congregation on the southwest side of the MWMO watershed, recently installed three rain gardens — and started growing water stewards of all ages in the […]
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East Side Water Watch students holding a dragonfly.

East Side Neighborhood Services youth become ‘water watchers’

Like many of us, James Taborda-Whitt hadn’t spent much time thinking about the value of the Mississippi River and its surrounding watershed. Sure, it’s one of the largest rivers in […]
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A rain simulator in use near U.S. Bank Stadium.

Which surfaces generate the most pollution in downtown Minneapolis?

You can’t stop pollution unless you know where it’s coming from. And in the case of downtown Minneapolis, it could be coming from seemingly anywhere. The city’s dense urban center […]
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Master Water Stewards and community volunteers stenciling a storm drain.

Master Water Stewards program develops community leaders for clean water

Master Water Stewards Sam Talbot and Marilyn Jones recently took advantage of a National Night Out get-together in the Seward neighborhood in south Minneapolis to engage and educate the community […]
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City of Minneapolis erosion monitoring interns driving to a construction site.

In Minneapolis, interns patrol the streets for signs of pollution

Preventing pollution isn’t easy in a city as large and highly developed as Minneapolis. The city has 28,000 storm drains, and each one provides a pathway for pollutants to travel […]
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An aerial view of flooding in Port Arthur, Texas, on August 31, 2017.

After Hurricane Harvey, time to plan for a changing climate?

It’s not everyday that arcane subjects like land use and zoning find their way into the national news cycle, but these are extraordinary times. The flooding that followed in the […]
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Michael Chaney of Project Sweetie Pie.

Urban agriculture spawns North Side enterprise

Story and photos courtesy Clean Water Minnesota. Poet/activist Michael Chaney may best be known for the greening of North Minneapolis through Project Sweetie Pie, the urban agriculture and advocacy nonprofit […]
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MWMO and Barr Engineering staff collecting sediment samples in Old Bassett Creek Tunnel.

Uncovering the Condition of the Old Bassett Creek Tunnel

Beneath the streets of Minneapolis, an old stream bed winds its way through a stormtunnel from Bassett Creek, just west of downtown, all the way to the Mississippi River. Earlier […]
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