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.
