Almost all of the salt spread on our roads and parking lots eventually migrates to surface or ground waters and like sugar in your morning coffee, once it’s there, it’s almost impossible to remove.
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Forest Lake Makes Dead Ends into New Beginnings
Before you sipped, breathed a sigh, and began your daily work, that water drop in your cup traveled a billion years and a million miles. It was passed down from generation to generation by the people who lived before us. Raingardens in Forest Lake are just one of the ways we can ensure this gift keeps giving.
Read MoreGreen streets, blue water, yellow ducks
Starting next year, the bright yellow Derby Day ducks will enjoy cleaner, bluer, water during their annual float down Perro Creek thanks to the Middle St. Croix Watershed Management Organization’s (MSCWMO) upcoming Green Streets Project.
Read MoreStreet Sweepers – sucking soon on a street near you?
Hence, dirty roads today often mean smelly lakes next summer. To combat this problem, many east metro communities like Woodbury sweep their streets twice a year, once in the fall to keep leaves from clogging the storm sewers and once in the spring to remove leftover winter sand.
Read MoreThings that make you go eww
To recap, septic systems need to be inspected and pumped every three years and replaced periodically, otherwise they can leak sewage into drinking water supplies and nearby lakes and rivers or overflow into your backyard and basement like a toilet in reverse. If that doesn’t win the applause-o-meter for eww, I don’t know what will.
Read MoreOne BIG pile of leaves
This year, the Freshwater Society has launched an initiative called Community Clean-ups for Water Quality, which encourages citizens to help keep lakes and rivers clean by removing leaves and other debris from city streets during the fall and spring when this debris poses the biggest threat to our waterways.
Read MoreDiary of a Storm Sewer
Don’t even talk to me about dog poop in the street…down the hatch it all goes! If it’s on the street today, it’s in the lake tomorrow.
Read MoreDo, not whine
You are probably complaining about buckthorn too. Guess what? So is everyone else and the buckthorn fairy is already busy pulling and cutting in someone else’s yard.
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