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As the Water Drop Rolls

By: angiehongmn December 30, 2013

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“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.”

As the Water Drop Rolls: Part 2

By: angiehongmn December 30, 2011

Keeping water clean, Local Achievements, Partners and Updates, Water ConservationBrown's Creek Watershed District, comfort lake - forest lake watershed district, Dellwood, Eagle Scout Ryan Thill, lake elm, raingardens, ramsey washington metro watershed district, Washington Conservation District, White Bear Yacht ClubLeave a Comment

Welcome again to another edition of As the Water Drop Rolls, brought to you by the East Metro Water Resource Education Program, a partnership of 17 local units of government working to keep your water clean.

Maplewood Mall: The next urban forest?

By: angiehongmn November 8, 2011

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Now, thanks to an ambitious project of the Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District, trees are sprouting right out of the pavement in the parking lot of the Mall.

Local watershed organizations partner with homeowners on clean water projects

By: angiehongmn May 10, 2011

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By splitting the cost of clean water projects with private landowners, watershed organizations are able to stretch grants and public, taxpayer funding further so that they can complete more projects per year. Private landowners, on the other hand, benefit from the design and installation assistance provided by the watersheds and are able to take on planting projects that they may not have been able to do, or afford, on their own.

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.

Do you really like me?

By: angiehongmn November 12, 2010

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My best guess for prom queen this year is the St. Croix River, liked by 16,850 people. Hopefully all those people are ready to roll up their sleeves and pitch in on projects to keep the river clean, now that its been declared impaired for excess phosphorus.