Completed Projects
The cities in the Shingle Creek and West Mississippi watersheds have been actively constructing projects to help restore and protect water quality in the lakes, streams, and Mississippi River. From rain gardens to treat runoff from a golf course parking lot to huge underground infiltration galleries that can hold over two million gallons of stormwater runoff, stream restoration projects to harvesting carp from lakes, each action makes a difference in our water and natural resources.
In the last 10 years the Watershed Commission has been successful in obtaining 23 grants totaling $3.5 million to help cities take on these projects. In 2020 alone, we raised over $660,000 for four projects: the Connections II project to restore part of Shingle Creek on the border of Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center; a stream restoration project on Bass Creek in Brooklyn Park; a whole-lake drawdown and alum treatment on Meadow Lake in New Hope; and a project to help reduce dissolved phosphorus entering Upper Twin Lake in Crystal.
In the last 10 years the Watershed Commission has been successful in obtaining 23 grants totaling $3.5 million to help cities take on these projects. In 2020 alone, we raised over $660,000 for four projects: the Connections II project to restore part of Shingle Creek on the border of Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center; a stream restoration project on Bass Creek in Brooklyn Park; a whole-lake drawdown and alum treatment on Meadow Lake in New Hope; and a project to help reduce dissolved phosphorus entering Upper Twin Lake in Crystal.