Tips for Managing Excess Water on Your Property

Come learn how to deal with nuisance ponding or excess water on your property from sump pump discharge or challenging topography or soils.

Sunday, May 18, 1-2 pm
Engwall's Greenhouse
4749 Hermantown Rd.

Learn more...

New billboards

If you're driving on Trinity Rd./Hwy 53 just north of Arlington Ave. or in Proctor at Hwy. 2 and Boundary Ave you will pass a billboard promoting the
Superior Streams Partner Program.

Find out what it's all about...

We're collecting data again -- the Kingsbury Creek sonde was deployed today, and the data should be posted soon. The Tischer Creek sonde has been running for about 2 weeks.

The Spring 2008 issue of the Stream-Line News is ready.

In this issue:
  - Can you make a difference for cleaner streams?
  - Beyond rain barrels
  - Lessons learned from Miller Creek
  - Bank stabilization project

The Miller Creek Interpretive Trail

Fall 2007 - Lake Superior College created a beautiful scenic trail in the ravine behind the college. It's a loop less than a mile long and connects 14 sites of ecologic and geologic interest.

Sites have numbered sign posts and the brochure provides natural history and natural resource stewardship information for each site. LSC will install a monitoring station in Spring 2008 that will allow website users to explore runoff and water quality in comparison to other regional streams.    

Download: Trail Brochure / Map

Erosion and Sediment Control:
2008 Construction Stormwater NPDES Permit Workshop

Hermantown Public Safety Building
Friday February 29, 2008
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Cost: $10    Lunch included

Get more details and a registration form.

Saturday, Feb 23, 2008
10:00am to 4:00pm

DON'T FLUSH unwanted or expired
medication down the drain. Bring it
to WLSSD's second collection event!

Western Lake Superior Sanitary District
Household Hazardous Waste Facility
2626 Courtland St., Duluth, MN 55806
Brochure with map (324 KB pdf)       More info at the WLSSD website.

Businesses in the Miller Creek Watershed are invited to a

FREE INFORMATIONAL LUNCH:
Thursday, February 21st
11:45 am - 1:00 p.m.
Country Inn and Suites
4257 Haines Rd.

Details & Registration

Low Impact Design practices reduce capital cost $$$$ and reduce environmental impacts.

An analysis of 17 case studies provides information to cities, counties, states, private-sector developers and others on the costs and benefits of using Low Impact Development (LID) strategies and practices to help protect and restore water quality. LID practices reduce stormwater runoff and are increasingly being used by communities across the country to help protect and restore water quality.

EPA. 2007. Reducing Stormwater Costs through Low Impact Development (LID) Strategies and Practices. Publication Number EPA 841-F-07-006, December 2007.
http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/costs07/

7th Annual Road Salt Symposium
8:30 am - 3:30 pm, February 5th, 2008
Crowne Plaza, Brooklyn Center, MN

Those interested in discussing the impacts of road salt and other deicers
and the search for solutions to reduce these impacts are encouraged to
attend this symposium.

Download the Brochure & Registration Form.

We pulled the last sonde from the streams today.

They were in danger of freezing solid.

The sondes will receive routine maintenance, and several of the units need to get upgraded to digital modems.

They will be returned when the freeze danger has passed -- probably in late March.

(Our camera froze, so this picture is from last year's extraction at Chester Creek.)

Welcome to the Watershed

Drivers along northern Minnesota’s roads may notice new signs welcoming visitors and residents to the Lake Superior Watershed. Over twenty signs have been placed on 10 state highways and 11 county roads in St. Louis, Carlton, Lake, Pine, Aitkin, and Itasca counties.

Purchase and installation of the signs were coordinated by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency staff with funding from the Lake Superior Binational Program and the Lakewide Management Plan.

Think Green

Recycle any Sony product for free with the Sony Take Back Recycling Program.

Bring your unwanted Sony product to any participating Waste Management eCycling
drop-off center and recycle it for free. The nearest location in the Twin Ports is in Superior WI.

Winter Parking Lot and Sidewalk Maintenance Workshop
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 from 10:00-2:30
at the University of Wisconsin - Superior

The Regional Stormwater Protection Team and the City of Superior are once again hosting a free half-day workshop for area parking lot and sidewalk managers.

Attendees will gain practical advice on how to make better proactive, cost-effective choices in winter parking lot and sidewalk management. 

Key topics include: best practices to keep parking lots and sidewalks safe and reduce environmental impacts; responsible application techniques; and selecting and using materials.

Don’t miss this great opportunity! Here are more details.