Our annual Fall Meeting is coming up on Wednesday, Oct. 24 in Glencoe. It will be held from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Glencoe City Center (South Ballroom), located at 1107 11th Street East. This is an important meeting
MPCA to host industrial stormwater compliance webinar Jan. 9
Want to know how other facilities successfully comply with industrial stormwater permit requirements? The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is hosting a webinar that will highlight the importance of regulatory interactions and how best management practices can be changed to improve [...] Read more
Planning a water infrastructure project? Don’t forget to respond to PFA
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
Professor presents new approach to managing nutrients in wastewater
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
Legislative Water Commission approves legislative priorities
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
Point Source Implementation Grant application list posted; uncertainty continues
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
MESERB hosts more than 100 wastewater professionals, city officials for meeting on chloride and other salty parameters
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
Volunteer cities sought for wastewater optimization project
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