MGWA Members Volunteer at Well Water Screening Clinic
by Cathy Undem, MGWA Education Committee A free well water screening clinic sponsored by MGWA and MNWOO was held in St. Charles, located in western Winona County, on February 2, 2023. Five MGWA member volunteers were present at the clinic to help process 119 water tests and talk to well owners about groundwater in general […]
Friends of the Pleistocene Conference
March 24, 2023
In Memoriam: Fletcher Driscoll
March 24, 2023
MGWA Spring Conference 2023
March 24, 2023
A Drinking Water Journey: An exploration of unique water supplies across Minnesota Three out of four Minnesotans rely on groundwater for their primary drinking water. A clean and reliable supply of drinking water on demand is something that we all take for granted, but do not always understand and appreciate the challenges involved in producing and delivering it to our taps. Drinking water is an artifact of both the natural…
New MGWA Officers for 2023
March 24, 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 Metro under the 2018 3M Settlement. Michael Ginsbach, a hydrologist with the MPCA's Remediation Division,…
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…
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