Join us! Green Teams Getting Ready for Earth Day & Monthly Clean Ups
Tuesday March 24 6:30pm to 7:30pm Link to Join Zoom Meeting

Join neighborhood green team volunteers to get ready for our local earth day park clean ups on April 18 and to learn from East Isles and the North Loop how they keeping volunteers active year round to reduce litter and protect water quality through monthly clean ups. Join our new city wide Water Quality Volunteers Network. Please RSVP Facebook Event to Share
Learn More https://rccmn.co/water/

 We’ll share Steps to promote your neighborhood clean ups

Join us to share your ideas to help strengthen our City’s 2025 Stormwater Annual Report at the

Community Environmental Advisory Commission (CEAC) Meeting Tuesday April 7 | 4:00 PM  to 6:00PM, Minneapolis City Hall, Room 132 350 S 5th St, Minneapolis, MN 55415

Please RSVP by March 31st if you plan to attend in person. A calendar invitation with full details will follow. For background Read the City’s 2024 Stormwater Annual Report at https://bit.ly/Mpls-NPDES-Report  

You can also submit written comments by March 27th by emailing  Haley Foster  l  Engagement & Outreach Coordinator, Minneapolis Public Works Haley.Foster@minneapolismn.gov

Hear exciting updates from staff from the MPRB and City of Minneapolis Public Works Surface Water & Sewers Division on their recent and planned innovative stormwater management activities as they present their 2025 Stormwater Annual Report.

Your input will be formally documented and submitted as part of the city’s permit review to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). We’d especially love to hear how MPRB and the Park Board are engaging with you or your neighbors. Your voice matters!

Join our new City-Wide Water Quality Volunteer Network

As part of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Green Teams Coalition RCC is supporting 30 neighborhood associations across Minneapolis on the Northside, NE, SE, River Gorge, Hiawatha Nokomis area, Southside and SW Minneapolis to organize water quality volunteer teams.

With initial support from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization RCC will collaborate with the City, MPRB and Hamline to support additional neighborhoods to follow the amazing example of the Uptown/Chain of Lakes Green Guardian’s 9 neighborhood coalition working to clean up Lake Bde Maka Ska, Lake of the Isles and Cedar Lake. the MWMO is supporting this initiative through a Community grant.

You can express interest in joining the coalition by completing our Minneapolis Green Teams interest survey.

 

 

Help protect our lakes, streams and rivers from litter and nitrogen pollution – to prevent harmful algal blooms, protect wild life, swimming & fishing, as our water quality is threatened by climate change drought & flood cycles.

ADOPT your STORM DRAIN clean it out 4 times a year & share your results – sign up at https://mn.adopt-a-drain.org/

Please rake the leaves up off your curb & bag or compost them before the winter snows

Family Friendly Water Quality Walk Sat April 25 3pm to 4pm

We’ll start from below the Lake Street Bridge on the West River Parkway gathering at the top of the  pedestrian ramp that goes to the Minneapolis Rowing Club just north of the Lake Street Bridge  Please RSVP to join us

  • We’ll visit the is a mid-size outflow drain just upstream of the Lake Street bridge that is accessible by a ramped road (pedestrians only) and the Winchell Trail (located next to the remnants of the wing dams for the old hydropower dam that powered the trolleys and Wonderland amusement park)
  • Pre-walk – The kids and families can look how water flows from their homes to the river via the MWMO story map www.mwmo.org/storymap.
  • Interested families can sign up to adopt their storm drains.
  • We will give families a map for future exploration to visit more outflows on the river Lake Street, 36th St, 44th St and Outfall where Minnehaha Creek flows into the Mississipi