A Minnesota System Designer Tackles the Tough Jobs, Advocates for Professionalism Through State Onsite Association
Stacey Feser drew inspiration from her dad, an onsite installer. Today she’s a designer, installer inspector and university instructor in soil science.
'All hands on deck' at Downtown Duluth's 38th annual meeting
University of Minnesota Duluth plans to bring clinical research and education to the Medical District with a new facility. The university is also pursuing Lot D for a new water-research facility.
Snowmelt and rain, where does it drain?
Maggie Karschnia is a stormwater and watershed extension educator with the University of Minnesota. She serves in a joint position with Minnesota Sea Grant and the Water Resources Center. We caught up with her to talk about spring thaw and stormwater.
A Sweeping Solution to Stormwater Pollution
by Maggie Karschnia, Minnesota Sea Grant, Water Resources Center
There’s a surprisingly simple and proven solution to stormwater pollution. When it rains in urbanized places like parking lots and paved streets, instead of soaking into the ground, stormwater runs off these impermeable — essentially water-proof — surfaces picking up and transporting pollutants along the way.
How important are gross solids to stormwater pollution?
Larry Baker (WRS faculty), John Chapman (PI), Grace Wilson, Jacques Finlay (WRS faculty), Aaron Pietsch, and Kathryn Hoffman
We have learned in recent years that “gross solids” – coarse organic material (COM) like tree seeds, pollen, leaves, and sticks – that fall into streets add a lot of nutrients to stormwater, plus pebbles and trash, are not included in normal stormwater sampling, which collects only tiny, suspended solids (SS).