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Discovery Point Closed for Holidays

  • Posted: December 18, 2024
  • Categories: Announcements, Discovery Point

From 12/23/2024- 12/27/2024, Discovery Point will be closed for the holidays.   For urgent matters, please reach out to the Administrator, Erica Sniegowski, at 952-658-9024.

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Correction to Photo Calendar

  • Posted: December 17, 2024
  • Categories: Announcements, Discovery Point, District News

Photo Calendars Please note that some of the watershed district’s board meetings are listed incorrectly in the 2025 photo calendar. The Nine Mile Creek Watershed […]

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Welcome our new Board Manager, Brian!

  • Posted: October 4, 2024
  • Categories: Announcements, Discovery Point, District News, Seasonal Highlights

The District is excited to welcome Brian Kirk as our new Board Manager! Brian Kirk was appointed in October 2024 as the newest Board Manger […]

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Welcome Claire!

  • Posted: September 27, 2024
  • Categories: Announcements, Discovery Point, District News, Seasonal Highlights

The District is excited to welcome Claire Volk as our new GreenCorps member! Claire is the newest GreenCorps member at Nine Mile Creek. During her […]

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Snapping Turtle Hatch at Discovery Point!

  • Posted: September 26, 2024
  • Categories: Announcements, Seasonal Highlights

  Snapping turtle hatchlings! These snapping turtles hatched right at the Discovery Point in one of our rain gardens earlier this fall! If we counted […]

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New podcast discusses low-salt design

  • Posted: August 28, 2024
  • Categories: Announcements, News

New podcast episode talks about low-salt design On a recent episode of “River of Ideas” podcast host Nick Busse talked with Connie Fortin about Low […]

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Welcome Cynthia!

  • Posted: August 22, 2024
  • Categories: Announcements, Discovery Point, District News, Seasonal Highlights

The District is excited to welcome Cynthia Rubio as our new Administrative Specialist! Cynthia provides administrative and day-to-day operations support for the District, which includes […]

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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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Accepting online bids for streambank project

  • Posted: July 11, 2024
  • Categories: District News

South Fork Nine Mile Creek Stabilization Project, Eden Prairie Nine Mile Creek Watershed District will be accepting online, electronic bids only for streambank stabilization on […]

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Board Vacancies

  • Posted: July 3, 2024
  • Categories: District News, Seasonal Highlights

Nine Mile Creek Watershed District Board Vacancies There were two vacancies on the Nine Mile Creek Watershed District Board due to expiration of term of […]

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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 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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Apr 29

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Blood Root!

Blood Root! ...

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Apr 24

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We are starting up our soil testing program again this spring! Any property within the watershed boundaries can submit a soil sample, and we will take it to the UMN Soil Testing Lab. The watershed district will pay the testing fee, but only if you sign up and drop your sample off at our office--we are not reimbursing people for tests. Go to our website to sign up and submit a soil sample: ninemilecreek.org/soil-testing

We are starting up our soil testing program again this spring! Any property within the watershed boundaries can submit a soil sample, and we will take it to the UMN Soil Testing Lab. The watershed district will pay the testing fee, but only if you sign up and drop your sample off at our office--we are not reimbursing people for tests.
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Apr 23

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There's still time to register for our trash cleanup on May 2 at Hopkins Valley Park! Since this is near the headwaters, our work protects the entirety of the creek downstream from getting as polluted. This event is a partnership with the City of Hopkins and Hopkins PD.

There`s still time to register for our trash cleanup on May 2 at Hopkins Valley Park! Since this is near the headwaters, our work protects the entirety of the creek downstream from getting as polluted.
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Apr 22

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Happy Earth Day! Despite all the challenges our planet faces, we take hope in the fact that there are so many advocates fighting for a healthy Earth. We are grateful for each and every one of you. It's the only planet we've got, and we're all on it together. 🌎 πŸ“·: Ryan G

Happy Earth Day! Despite all the challenges our planet faces, we take hope in the fact that there are so many advocates fighting for a healthy Earth. We are grateful for each and every one of you.

It`s the only planet we`ve got, and we`re all on it together. 🌎

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