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As the Water Drop Rolls

By: angiehongmn December 30, 2013

Keeping water clean, Local Achievements, Partners and UpdatesBrown's Creek Watershed District, Carnelian Marine St. Croix Watershed District, comfort lake - forest lake watershed district, Forest Lake, Lake Elmo, middle st. croix watershed management organization, raingardens, ramsey washington metro watershed district, south washington watershed district, Stillwater, Valley Branch Watershed District, Washington Conservation DistrictLeave a Comment

“We need phosphorus to eat,” they plead. “If you’ll just give us a little more food, we promise not to turn Colby Lake green and steal all the oxygen from the fish next time.”

Out Standing in their Field

By: angiehongmn December 21, 2010

Keeping water clean, Local Achievementsalgae, buckthorn, Carnelian Marine St. Croix Watershed District, clean water award, conservation, erosion control, invasive plants, non-point source pollution, St. Croix, St. Croix River, voluntary projects, Washington Conservation District, water pollution1 Comment

Standing in their field that day, the Warmingtons knew that the folks at the WCD would be able to help them with this gully as well.

As the Water Drop Rolls

Long envied for her crystal clear water, the lake uses her beauty and charm to convince Washington County Parks and the Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix Watershed District to build raingardens, porous pavement, a rock swale and native plantings to block a pesky suitor known locally as Polluted Runoff.

The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Daphnia

By: angiehongmn August 20, 2010

Aquatic BiologyCarnelian Marine St. Croix Watershed District, daphnia, Square Lake, trout, Washington County ParksLeave a Comment

Whoâ€™s eating the daphnia in Square Lake? Is it the rainbow trout stocked by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources each spring and fall? Is it the bluegills and sunfish in the lake? Could a fly be to blame? What is a daphnia anyway, and why do I care?