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Minnesotans Call for New Legislation to Promote Smart Salting

By: angiehongmn February 7, 2018

Aquatic Biology, Groundwater, Keeping water cleanclean water, groundwater, lakes, road salt, streams, water pollution, WaterShed Partners1 Comment

Written in partnership with Watershed Partners: http://www.cleanwatermn.org More than ten years ago, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) came to a frightening realization. After testing lakes and streams in the Twin Cities metro area, they discovered that chloride levels in many were climbing, and that some were already too salty to support fish. Further testing…

Stopping the Nitrogen Super-Highway

By: angiehongmn June 19, 2014

Keeping water cleanMinnesota Pollution Control Agency, Mississippi River, nitrogen, Nitrogen Study, WaterShed PartnersLeave a Comment

The amount of nitrogen flowing downstream in the Mississippi River has doubled since 1976 and nitrogen levels are increasing in about half of the other rivers and streams in Minnesota as well.