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Upcoming Events Information:
Enhancing the Zumbro Experience: A Watershed Colloquium
People with an interest in the Zumbro River are invited to participate in a structured conversation that will be used to inform a comprehensive
management plan being written by the Zumbro Watershed Partnership.
The two-hour event will take place at 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 14, at the Cascade Meadow
Wetlands & Environmental Science Center, 2900 19th St. NW, Rochester.
Those attending the event, “Enhancing the Zumbro Experience: a Watershed Colloquium”, can choose to participate in one of five structure
conversations – one for each of the three forks of the Zumbro, one for the main stem, and one for urban-specific issues.
This colloquium is FREE but please register here. Contact Norman Senjem at nsenjem@gmail.com, or call 507-2719044.
Save the Date for the 5th Annual Rochester Community Rain Barrel and Compost Bin Sale!
When: ONE DAY ONLY! Saturday, May 19th from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where: Apache Mall South Parking Lot
What: Purchase 55-gallon Systern Rain Barrels for $62 and Earth Machine Compost Bins for $52
Announcements:
2009-2011 Surface Water Assessment Grant Data
In 2009, the ZWP was awarded a 2-year grant to monitor nitrates and E. Coli as well as temperature and transparency of 12 stream reaches
of the Zumbro River. Below are the results from the 2009 and 2010 sampling seasons.
2009 Data
Transparency Data
Temperature Data
Nitrate and E. Coli Data
2010 Data
PowerPoint presentation that includes site locations, data on 2010 nitrate and E. Coli concentrations as well as trends from 2009-2010.
Grant updates:
We are happy to announce that the ZWP has received another two years of funding from the McKnight Foundation! This funding will help the
ZWP continue to educate the citizens of the watershed about water quality issues and how to restore and protect our valuable resources.
Zumbro Watershed Partnership was recently recommended by the Legislative-Ctitizens Committee on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) to
receive a $150,000 grant from the Environment and Natural Resource Trust Fund for a project to prioritize critical restoration and protection
sites in the Zumbro Watershed. Stay tuned for more information...
In February 2010, the ZWP received a $5,000 Conservation Partnership Grant from Minnesota Waters to provide outreach on the shoreland
buffer rule and the benefits of agricultural buffers to shoreland landowners throughout the watershed. The grant will wrap-up this September.
The ZWP has been awarded the MN Pollution Control Agency's Surface Water Assessment Grant (SWAG) for 2009 and 2010. We are
currently in our second year of monitoring of nutrients, bacteria, temperature and clarity in the cold-water trout streams of the Zumbro
Watershed.
Enhancing the Zumbro Experience: A Watershed Colloquium
People with an interest in the Zumbro River are invited to participate in a structured conversation that will be used to inform a comprehensive
management plan being written by the Zumbro Watershed Partnership.
The two-hour event will take place at 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 14, at the Cascade Meadow
Wetlands & Environmental Science Center, 2900 19th St. NW, Rochester.
Those attending the event, “Enhancing the Zumbro Experience: a Watershed Colloquium”, can choose to participate in one of five structure
conversations – one for each of the three forks of the Zumbro, one for the main stem, and one for urban-specific issues.
This colloquium is FREE but please register here. Contact Norman Senjem at nsenjem@gmail.com, or call 507-2719044.
Save the Date for the 5th Annual Rochester Community Rain Barrel and Compost Bin Sale!
When: ONE DAY ONLY! Saturday, May 19th from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where: Apache Mall South Parking Lot
What: Purchase 55-gallon Systern Rain Barrels for $62 and Earth Machine Compost Bins for $52
Announcements:
2009-2011 Surface Water Assessment Grant Data
In 2009, the ZWP was awarded a 2-year grant to monitor nitrates and E. Coli as well as temperature and transparency of 12 stream reaches
of the Zumbro River. Below are the results from the 2009 and 2010 sampling seasons.
2009 Data
Transparency Data
Temperature Data
Nitrate and E. Coli Data
2010 Data
PowerPoint presentation that includes site locations, data on 2010 nitrate and E. Coli concentrations as well as trends from 2009-2010.
Grant updates:
We are happy to announce that the ZWP has received another two years of funding from the McKnight Foundation! This funding will help the
ZWP continue to educate the citizens of the watershed about water quality issues and how to restore and protect our valuable resources.
Zumbro Watershed Partnership was recently recommended by the Legislative-Ctitizens Committee on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) to
receive a $150,000 grant from the Environment and Natural Resource Trust Fund for a project to prioritize critical restoration and protection
sites in the Zumbro Watershed. Stay tuned for more information...
In February 2010, the ZWP received a $5,000 Conservation Partnership Grant from Minnesota Waters to provide outreach on the shoreland
buffer rule and the benefits of agricultural buffers to shoreland landowners throughout the watershed. The grant will wrap-up this September.
The ZWP has been awarded the MN Pollution Control Agency's Surface Water Assessment Grant (SWAG) for 2009 and 2010. We are
currently in our second year of monitoring of nutrients, bacteria, temperature and clarity in the cold-water trout streams of the Zumbro
Watershed.