The Public Facilities Authority (PFA) is gathering information for a legislatively required report on estimated grant funding needs for the Water Infrastructure Fund (WIF) and Point Source Implementation Grant (PSIG) Program. To be eligible for those programs, projects must be [...] Read more

On Tuesday, MESERB attorneys Elizabeth Wefel and Gretel Lee attended a lecture on wastewater management by Dr. Jeremy Guest, a professor of civil and environmental engineering. In his lecture, titled “Returning Nutrients to Agriculture: The Role of Cities in a [...] Read more

Last week, the Legislative Water Commission (LWC) met and adopted its legislative priorities for 2019. Several of the priorities may be of particular interest to MESERB members, including a proposal to create a planning process to prepare statewide water policy [...] Read more

The Public Facilities Authority recently posted the list of FY 2019 applicants for the Point Source Implementation Grant (PSIG) program. Multiple MESERB members are on the list, which indicates the projects that will be eligible to receive PSIG grant funding.[...] Read more

Thank you to everyone who attended MESERB’s meeting on “Wastewater Permitting: Solutions to Address Chloride & Other Salty Parameters” in Hutchinson yesterday. It was great to see so many MESERB members and to meet many new wastewater professionals and local [...] Read more

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency received a grant to conduct a pilot project to explore methods for improving processes at wastewater facilities to increase the effectiveness of phosphorus removal without building new plants. Now it is looking for participants for [...] Read more

There were several legislative attempts last spring to address some of the deficiencies with the wild rice sulfate rule and to create a task force to address these concerns. Gov. Dayton vetoed the legislation that related to the rule, but [...] Read more