New MGWA Officers for 2023
Sandeep Burman is the new President of the MGWA for 2023. Sandeep serves as the State Drinking Water Administrator at the Minnesota Department of Health. Rebecca Higgins is the MGWA President Elect. Rebecca is a Senior Hydrogeologist at the MPCA and is the technical lead for the PFAS Source Assessment and Feasibility in the East […]
President’s Letter
December 22, 2022
Rebecca Higgins – MGWA President-Elect Candidate
December 22, 2022
Eric Bunge – MGWA Treasurer Candidate
December 22, 2022
MGWA and the Minnesota K-12 Education Standards for Science Intersection
December 22, 2022
By Cathy Undem, MGWA Education Committee Chair In 2016 MGWA published Minnesota’s Groundwater Education Gap (mgwa.org) white paper. The white paper identified the following finding: “The limited scope of the current Minnesota academic standards and benchmarks relating to groundwater education provides for a wide variety of options to increase K-12 student education about groundwater. Essentially, there is a clean slate on which to develop expanded academic requirements.” Revisions to the…
New Lake Nokomis Area Groundwater & Surface Water White Paper Published
December 22, 2022
from the MGWA Newsletter Team During the wettest seven years on record in the Twin Cities, 2013-2019, property owners southwest of Lake Nokomis reported water-related concerns to the City of Minneapolis. Concerns included wet basements, wet backyards, sinkholes, impacts to private sewer lines, and extended periods of saturated soils in previously dry areas. In response, the City of Minneapolis assembled a multi-agency team to evaluate what could be contributing to…
Fall Conference Presentations and Audio Available
December 22, 2022
by MGWA Newsletter Team After almost three years of virtual meetings, the MGWA Fall Conference was held in person again on November 17th, 2022 at the Heritage Center of Brooklyn Center! The meeting’s theme was mining and Minnesota’s water resources. The topics presented included an overview of the state’s mining districts, characterization and modeling of fractured rock aquifers, assessment of mine dewatering effects, an overview of the DNR’s mining hydrology…
MGWA Social Coordinator
December 22, 2022
President’s Letter
September 30, 2022
MGWA Fall Conference – Minnesota Mining and Water Resources
September 30, 2022
MGWA’s fall conference will be held on November 17th, 2022 and will focus on topics related to the interaction between mining activities and water resources. Mining of industrial and metallic minerals contributes significantly to Minnesota’s economy and large mineral reserves position the state to continue to play a key role in meeting future global demand. Understanding, predicting, and managing the potential impacts from mining on the state’s water resources presents…
New Article on Chloride in Groundwater
September 30, 2022
from the MGWA Newsletter Team The University of Minnesota recently published an article in the journal Groundwater on chloride concentrations in the bedrock aquifers in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. This study used historical data from the MDA, MDNR, and MPCA and found the highest concentrations were in the uppermost Quaternary aquifers. Concentrations in the underlying bedrock aquifers were negatively correlated with the thickness and clay composition of overlying materials.…
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