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November 07, 2022
Request for Professional Services for 2023–2024
The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) uses outside consultants to provide professional services in a number of areas, including but not limited to: Auditing, Communications, Design and Engineering, Legal and Planning. Firms interested in providing services to the MWMO for...
MWMO grants funds for 5 Northeast projects
Northeaster - May 3, 2019
Northeast is the beneficiary of five grants awarded recently by the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) for environmental work. These green infrastructure projects capture, treat and/or reuse stormwater runoff. Grants range from $3,000 to $550,000. All of these projects will begin this year.
Restoring Native Landscape at Kasota Ponds
Park Bugle - April 21, 2019
(…) Funding for the project came from a grant from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization. All of this is part of the SAPCC’s work to create a native pollinator-friendly pond buffer that also assists in improving water quality.
Spring break starts out soggy for UMN area
The Minnesota Daily - March 23, 2019
Nick Busse, communications principal with the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, said localized flooding is often caused by plugged storm drains. The City of Minneapolis works to clear storm drains in order to avoid this kind of flooding.
Watershed management training concludes
Eastern Mirror - March 17, 2019
Dimapur, March 16 (EMN): A two-day training and workshop on “Hydro-meteorological monitoring and watershed management” concluded on March 16 at department of land resources’ resource centre, Ruzaphema, Dimapur. The training was organised by the land resources department in collaboration with University of Minnesota and Mississippi watershed management organisation, USA.
Collective efforts solve multiple issues, advance reuse
Stormwater Management - Spring 2019
Within the US state of Minnesota's new Towerside Innovation District, a testing ground for experimental approaches to city planning, the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization is at the helm of a unique approach to stormwater management that hinges on cooperation between neighbors.
Stevenson kindergarten students ‘save seeds’ for rain garden
Fridley Sun Focus - Feb. 4, 2019
On a mission to fight pollution, Stevenson kindergarten students kicked off a school-wide initiative as they ‘saved seeds’ on Jan. 11.
Columbia Golf Course gets stormwater funds
Northeaster - January 23, 2019
The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) will begin to address flooding issues and water quality in Northeast Minneapolis, thanks to $800,000 from the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR).
Golf course upgrades meant to reduce pollution in Mississippi
KSTP - Jan. 2, 2019
A new project is meant to keep polluted water out of the Mississippi River, and reduce flooding in Northeast Minneapolis and Columbia Heights. The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) has been awarded $800,000 from the Minnesota Board of Soil and Water Resources...