Water Quality and Stream Quality Projects in Minnesota
Current Projects
Real-time water-quality monitoring: (USGS and Shingle Creek Watershed District, MN-DOT, BWSR, others)—The USGS displays and publishes real-time water-quality data according to cooperator and project needs for several parameters including specific conductance, water temperature, pH, DO, and turbidity. Data are available for Shingle Creek, Seguchie Creek, Little Cobb River and others sites here, and are published annually.
Environmental Effects of Agricultural Practices
MN095--Toxics - Crude Oil Contamination of Ground Water Near Bemidji
National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site – Site Management
MN141--National Water-Quality Assessment - Upper Mississippi River Basin
MN226--Mercury Bioaccumulation in Stream Ecosystems (NAWQA mercury topical study)
MN257--Lake Endocrine Disruption
MN258--Sentinel Lakes
MN259--Emerging Contaminants in Shallow Groundwater in Minnesota, 2009 – 2010
MN264--Presence of Selected Endocrine Active Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals in Water and Sediment from the St. Louis River, St. Louis Bay, and Superior Bay
MN268--Lake Septic Discharge
MN271--Potential Benefits of Perpetual Easements on Phosphorus Reduction (West Fork Beaver Creek)
MN272--Chemicals of concern and biological responses in tributaries to the St. Croix River that receive wastewater discharge
Chemicals of Concern in the Great Lakes Basin
MN00331--Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) – Upper Midwest Region
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