Content Type: External News
Columbia Heights Library honored with Brownfield award
Sun Focus - Dec. 10, 2016
...The city also has a partnership agreement with the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization and features a landscape with storm water best management practices...
Blind Somali math teacher adding to his legacy in Minneapolis
Star Tribune - Nov. 27, 2016
… Recently, Xiito took on a project from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization to do community education for Twin Cities Somalis about the importance of clean water and protecting the […]
Minnesota Brownfields honors five projects
Finance & Commerce - Nov. 21, 2016
Columbia Heights’ new library at 3939 Central Ave. NE won the small city impact award for creating a new 22,600-square-foot building that replaced a 60-year-old facility and a vacant, contaminated site once home to a Burger King.
Puddles will have a purpose on St. Paul’s West Side Flats
Star Tribune - Oct. 13, 2016
It is being done in the Prospect Park neighborhood of Minneapolis, where ground was broken this summer for the Towerside District Stormwater System, designed to treat 4.5 million gallons of runoff for reuse each year.
Setting the standard for green schools
Southwest Journal - Sept. 20, 2016
…The new eco-friendly high school is the result of community partners — including Spark-Y, the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, the school board, the Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association and City Council…
Prospect Park gets its biggest commercial development yet, an apartment-retail complex
Star Tribune - Sept. 10, 2016
The Rise at Prospect Park developers are among several who are participating in a shared private stormwater facility that is under construction in the neighborhood.
Rideshare The Mississippi? Check-Out Kayaks Coming Soon
Gear Junkie - Aug. 10, 2016
A pilot program launching this month, the Mississippi River Paddle Share will give people in the Twin Cities a four-mile stretch of urban river to paddle in a day-use kayak.
‘Paddle Share’ brings kayak rental to Mississippi
KARE 11 - Aug. 4, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS - Consider it an acquatic version of the Nice Ride bike concept. Paddle Share will allow people to rent kayaks from special stations up and down the Mississippi River between North Mississippi Regional Park and Boom Island.
How ‘water aware’ are you?
KARE 11 - Aug. 2, 2016
On Tuesday, the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization in north Minneapolis hosted a water workshop for educators to learn more about how to take care of our bodies of water.