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Brainerd, Minn.-- The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
(MPCA) has scheduled two public informational meetings to provide updates and
answer questions regarding ongoing water quality projects in the Mississippi
River-Headwaters watershed. The meetings are scheduled for Jan. 12, 5:30-7:30
p.m., at Bemidji City Hall, 317 4th St. NW, Bemidji; and Jan. 26,
6:00-8:00 p.m., at the Cohasset Community Center, 305 1st Ave. NW,
Cohasset.
The Mississippi
River-Headwaters Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS)
project began in October 2012. Since then, the MPCA and area partners have
collected extensive water quality monitoring data on lakes, rivers and streams
throughout the watershed. Assessments of the data have led to two lakes being
addressed through individual water quality studies to determine causes, and
find solutions to excess nutrient pollution, mainly phosphorus. Those lakes are
Lake Irving in Bemidji, and Little Turtle Lake, about ten miles north of
Bemidji. The lake studies are known as Total Maximum Daily Load, or TMDLs.
The WRAPS project will also
establish protection strategies to maintain the long-term health of surface
waters throughout the watershed that do meet state water quality standards.
MPCA staff, and area partners, will
present information about this WRAPS project, answer your questions and offer
opportunity for citizens to get involved in the process.
For questions
about this project or the public meetings, contact MPCA Watershed Project
Manager Phil Votruba at 218-316-3901. More information on
the WRAPS process can be found on the Mississippi River-Headwaters watershed web page.
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The Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency has scheduled two public informational meetings to
provide updates regarding ongoing water quality projects in the Mississippi
River-Headwaters watershed. The meetings will be on January 12, at five thirty P-M, at
Bemidji City Hall, and on January 26, at six o'clock P-M, at the Cohasset Community
Center. Results of water quality monitoring, status of waters in need of
restoration, and strategies to protect waters that are in good shape will be
discussed. For more information about these public informational meetings, contact
the M-P-C-A’s Brainerd Regional Office.
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