Edgerton’s long-term solution to drinking water protection

A Wellhead Protection Partner Grant ensures land within a highly vulnerable area of Edgerton’s Drinking Water Supply Management Area will remain in perennial cover for 30 years. It’s part of the city’s ongoing work to lower nitrate levels in water from the city’s well.

BWSR lauds Prior Lake-Spring Lake’s Dick for forging connections, bringing joy to work

“All of my work experience has been working with the public in some fashion in a voluntary way — meaning no one was forced to work with me or participate. I had to figure out how to make it compelling or fit in their life.” — Emily Dick, Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District water resources project manager and BWSR 2024 Outstanding Watershed Organization Employee

BWSR recognizes Cottonwood SWCD administrator’s creative tactics

Cottonwood SWCD Administrator Kay Gross, who was named BWSR’s Outstanding Soil and Water Conservation District Administrator during the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts' convention, earned praise from colleagues who described her as creative and generous.