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March 10, 2025

MWMO Newsletter — February 2025 — Spring Forward Edition 🌱✨

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In This Issue: Big Moves for Green Infrastructure, New Art Exhibit: Filter Effect, MWMO Internship Opportunities, Upcoming Events, and More Read the Newsletter...

Prairie smoke in bloom.

Plants of the Month: Pasque Flower and Prairie Smoke

By Marcy Bean Native prairie plants are beneficial for clean water and habitat, but they have the added virtue of being beautiful. We are lucky at the MWMO to have […]
April 18, 2016
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A scene from construction of the St. Anthony treatment system.

A Peek Inside Our New High-Tech Treatment Facility

It’s rare to find an opportunity to capture and clean polluted runoff from half a city. But that’s exactly what our new state-of-the-art treatment system is designed to do for […]
April 6, 2016
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A fiber art work produced for the Putting Down Roots project.

Putting Down Roots: Supporting Clean Water Through Community Art

By Michaela Neu Being that our Stormwater Park and Learning Center sits in the arts district of Minneapolis, it was probably only a matter of time before we found our way into the local […]
April 4, 2016
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A broom being used to sweep leaves off of a storm drain.

Four Spring Cleaning Tips for Protecting Clean Water

Spring may be the season for rejuvenation, but it’s also a time for dirty work. Chances are you’ll spend the first nice weekend of the year scrubbing a winter’s worth […]
March 28, 2016
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The new MWMO website, displayed on a smartphone and a laptop screen.

A New Website for a New MWMO

Welcome to our new website! If you’re a returning visitor, don’t be alarmed. You might be asking questions like: What happened to all those soothing, empty white spaces? The whimsical, maze-like […]
March 28, 2016
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MWMO staff conducting bathymetric mapping in 2016.

Mapping the Changing Ecology of the Mississippi River

The closure of the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam in June 2015 marked the end of an era for the Mississippi River — and the beginning of a […]
March 5, 2016
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This Week’s Four Must-See Art Shows

Aaron Dysart takes ice sculpturing to a whole new level with Watershed. Using data collected from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, Dysart has crafted a 3-D scale model replica of […]
February 5, 2016

City Pages - Feb. 4, 2016

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Minneapolis Sculpture Garden to grow with 16 works from Walker Art Center

Its grounds and pathways will be reconfigured, new trees and shrubs planted and water management systems upgraded (…) with funding from the state of Minnesota and the Mississippi Watershed Management […]
January 26, 2016

Star Tribune - Jan. 26, 2016

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Study to review effects of retiring a stretch of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis

The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, based on the northeast riverfront, the University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, are cooperating in the work.
January 4, 2016

Star Tribune - Jan. 4, 2016

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