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Winter Salt Week January 27-31

  • Posted: January 8, 2025
  • Categories: Announcements, Events, Seasonal Highlights

Winter Salt Awareness Week Livestreams and events January 27-31, 2025 All the salt that we apply to streets and sidewalks ends up in our freshwater. […]

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Starry Trek 2024

  • Posted: July 30, 2024
  • Categories: Announcements, Discovery Point, District News, Events, News

NMCWD is a host site for Starry Trek 2024. We’re looking for brave volunteers to help us locate and identify invasive species like starry stonewort. […]

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Bloomington hosts buckthorn bust

  • Posted: October 12, 2021
  • Categories: Announcements, Events, News, Seasonal Highlights

Buckthorn bust hosted by City of Bloomington Join Bloomington Parks and Recreation and Public Works staff and members of the Sustainability Commission to remove invasive […]

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Save the Date: August Road Salt Symposium

  • Posted: April 14, 2021
  • Categories: Announcements, Events, News

Save the date for the annual Road Salt Symposium on August 3-4, 2021! The Symposium will be all virtual and you can register at https://fortinconsulting.com/2021-symposium/ […]

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Project open house: Bristol & Mavelle Park

  • Posted: April 9, 2021
  • Categories: Announcements, Events, News

The City of Edina is partnering with the Nine Mile Creek Watershed District to study options for providing stormwater improvements in the Bristol & Mavelle […]

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MPCA Smart Salting training video

  • Posted: January 14, 2021
  • Categories: Announcements, Events, Seasonal Highlights

New MPCA Smart Salting Training video Winter is here, bringing with it the recurring management of slippery snow and ice. The tons of salt used […]

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Scout Troop 469 Cleanup Event

  • Posted: June 10, 2020
  • Categories: Announcements, Events, News, Seasonal Highlights

Last week, Scout Troop 469 had a successful cleanup event! The troop helped keep Normandale Lake clean by picking up trash around the lake. More […]

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Aquarium fish surrender event

  • Posted: January 29, 2020
  • Categories: Announcements, Events, News

Surrender unwanted aquarium fish and plants instead of releasing them! Give your fish and aquatic plants a healthy home. The Minnesota Aquarium Society in partnership […]

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District honored with award

  • Posted: December 11, 2019
  • Categories: Announcements, District News, Events

Nine Mile Creek Watershed District staff and managers were honored to accept an award for 60 years of watershed management from the Minnesota Association of […]

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Celebrating 60 years

  • Posted: October 15, 2019
  • Categories: Announcements, District News, Events

The Nine Mile Creek Watershed District recently celebrated its 60 year anniversary at the Hyland Hills Ski Chalet. Thank you to all those who were […]

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SEASONAL TIP: Pick up dog poop and throw it in the trash. Some may think it's natural, but the bacteria inside can hurt our creeks and lakes.

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May 21

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Shoulder Season is done- that means you might run into NMCWD staff out in the wild. Check out our latest video that highlights some of our activities on Lake Cornelia in Edina. #spring #cattails #edinamn

Shoulder Season is done- that means you might run into NMCWD staff out in the wild. Check out our latest video that highlights some of our activities on Lake Cornelia in Edina. #spring #cattails #edinamn ...

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May 20

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Central Park ground breaking ceremony, May 19, 2026. 

The Central Park Improvement project is a City of Hopkins-led project aiming to improve park amenities while also improving stormwater function, flood reduction, and habitat in a wholistic approach to parcel redevelopment. The City of Hopkins has partnered with the Nine Mile Creek Watershed District throughout the design of the project and collaborated on green infrastructure development within the park.

Learn more about this impactful project we are so excited about:  https://www.ninemilecreek.org/projects-studies/central-park-partner-project/

#hopkinsmn #HENNIPENCOUNTY  #MPCA  #bestmanagementpratices #floodreductionprojects

Central Park ground breaking ceremony, May 19, 2026.

The Central Park Improvement project is a City of Hopkins-led project aiming to improve park amenities while also improving stormwater function, flood reduction, and habitat in a wholistic approach to parcel redevelopment. The City of Hopkins has partnered with the Nine Mile Creek Watershed District throughout the design of the project and collaborated on green infrastructure development within the park.

Learn more about this impactful project we are so excited about: https://www.ninemilecreek.org/projects-studies/central-park-partner-project/

#hopkinsmn #HENNIPENCOUNTY #MPCA #bestmanagementpratices #floodreductionprojects
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May 18

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Looking for something to do this summer, check out the events happening all year through Sacred Water Shared: Future.https://sacredwatersharedfuture.org/events/month/

Sacred Water Shared Future is celebrating community, storytelling, education, and conservation as part of a year-long campaign in 2026. The campaign honors the central role the Mississippi River has played in our region while acknowledging its deep history, sacredness, and resilience. Our hope is that the campaign will inspire collaboration and shared action in 2026, and set the stage for the next 100 years of healing for both the river and the life it supports.

Looking for something to do this summer, check out the events happening all year through Sacred Water Shared: Future.https://sacredwatersharedfuture.org/events/month/

Sacred Water Shared Future is celebrating community, storytelling, education, and conservation as part of a year-long campaign in 2026. The campaign honors the central role the Mississippi River has played in our region while acknowledging its deep history, sacredness, and resilience. Our hope is that the campaign will inspire collaboration and shared action in 2026, and set the stage for the next 100 years of healing for both the river and the life it supports.
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May 15

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Have you ever wondered about Nine Mile Creek’s fisheries work? Wonder no more! Next week, information pages will be available on our website all about the work happening in our lakes.

Have you ever wondered about Nine Mile Creek’s fisheries work? Wonder no more! Next week, information pages will be available on our website all about the work happening in our lakes. ...

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May 11

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Garlic mustard is an invasive species that outcompetes native plants and takes over forest floors, preventing other plant regeneration. This invasive species has become an increasingly large problem in the Midwest and management is key for the health of our city’s environment.

Sign up link: https://www.hopkinsmn.com/FormCenter/Sustainability-30/Garlic-Mustard-Removal-Volunteer-Opportu-274

Garlic mustard is an invasive species that outcompetes native plants and takes over forest floors, preventing other plant regeneration. This invasive species has become an increasingly large problem in the Midwest and management is key for the health of our city’s environment.

Sign up link: https://www.hopkinsmn.com/FormCenter/Sustainability-30/Garlic-Mustard-Removal-Volunteer-Opportu-274
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May 8

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Friday flowers! Well, it will have flowers soon...here is Virginia Waterleaf! One of the later spring ephemeral wildflowers to bloom, its flowers look like little pom poms or firework bursts. Come for a walk around Discovery Point to find these cool plants!

Friday flowers! Well, it will have flowers soon...here is Virginia Waterleaf! One of the later spring ephemeral wildflowers to bloom, its flowers look like little pom poms or firework bursts. Come for a walk around Discovery Point to find these cool plants! ...

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May 6

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Our staff volunteered at Second Harvest Heartland yesterday. Together with other volunteer groups, we bagged enough potatoes and cereal to provide the equivalent of over 19,000 meals!

Our staff volunteered at Second Harvest Heartland yesterday. Together with other volunteer groups, we bagged enough potatoes and cereal to provide the equivalent of over 19,000 meals! ...

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May 6

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It's the season for trash cleanups! Our new Adopt a Creek sections are being claimed and cleaned by great volunteers all across the watershed. We estimate that volunteers have filled at least 25 big bags of trash from the creek this spring alone. Along with the usual candy wrappers and plastic bottles, people have found tires, poles, and a suitcase in the creek!

It`s the season for trash cleanups! Our new Adopt a Creek sections are being claimed and cleaned by great volunteers all across the watershed. We estimate that volunteers have filled at least 25 big bags of trash from the creek this spring alone. Along with the usual candy wrappers and plastic bottles, people have found tires, poles, and a suitcase in the creek! ...

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May 4

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Thanks to everyone who came out to pick up trash in Hopkins' Valley Park on Saturday! The force is strong with you. Happy Star Wars Day!

Thanks to everyone who came out to pick up trash in Hopkins` Valley Park on Saturday! The force is strong with you. Happy Star Wars Day! ...

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Apr 30

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Your Spring cleaning indoors can wait! Help us clean up around Nine Mile Creek this Saturday May 2nd from 1-3p!

Your Spring cleaning indoors can wait! Help us clean up around Nine Mile Creek this Saturday May 2nd from 1-3p! ...

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