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Thank you to all of our members who made it to Fergus Falls for the MESERB Annual Meeting on June 6. We had a great turnout, excellent discussion about our priorities for 2019-2020, and informative presentations from the City of [...] Read more

Minnesota’s regular legislative session ended May 20. However, because the Legislature was unable to pass all of the bills necessary to set the next two-year state budget, Governor Tim Walz called legislators back a few days later for a one-day [...] Read more

MESERB’s Annual Meeting is coming up soon! Here are the details:

• What: 2019 MESERB Annual Meeting
• When:Thursday, June 6 from 10am – 4 pm (with a reception to follow from 4-6 p.m.)
• Where: Bigwood Event Center, 825 Western

The Water Data Collaborative is an affiliation of academic, governmental and non-profit institutions dedicated to harnessing the power of citizen-based water quality monitoring data. Since its formation in 2017, the Collaborative has been working to develop a systematic process and [...] Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Water Quality Modeling Workgroup is hosting a series of webinars to help water quality professionals better understand surface water quality modeling and how models can be used to solve common problems that face water [...] Read more

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has published a request for comments on planned amendments to water rules (Minn. R. chapters 7050 and 7053) governing water quality standards for Class 3 industrial consumption and Class 4 agricultural and wildlife [...] Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created NutrientSmark, or “NSmart,” a proposed voluntary program to help water resource recovery facilities and their watershed partners progress toward reducing nutrients in bodies of water. The EPA’s Office of Water and the [...] Read more

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has released its annual legislative report on municipal NPDES permitting and water quality standards. There is always useful information in this report, and we recommend that all MESERB members review it. If you [...] Read more

This year’s annual membership meeting will be held in Fergus Falls on Thursday, June 6, 2019. We are still in the process of setting the full agenda, but we encourage you to put the date on your calendar. The meeting [...] Read more

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is now receiving most reports and submittals electronically from wastewater treatment facilities with National Pollutant Discharge Elimination (NPDES)/State Disposal System (SDS) permits. These permits require certain reports and water quality (WQ) submittals

The majority [...] Read more