Stormwater 101 - streets to streams

What is stormwater? Here are materials that provide introductory-level information on stormwater.

Newsletter articles

• History of Stormwater
  • East Metro Water: history of an acronym - MS4

• History of stormwater
  • History of stormwater management
  • History of stormwater and wastewater in Minneapolis
  • Stormwater program rulemaking

• Wetland social media
  • Care for wetlands
  • Seasonal wetlands are protected
  • Wetland types
  • Wetlands are protected
  • Wetlands vs. stormwater ponds

• What is a watershed?
  • What is a watershed tweet
  • What is a watershed newsletter
  • What is a watershed social media

Print materials

• After the storm: a citizen's guide to understanding stormwater
• EPA solution to pollution: a homeowner’s guide to healthy habits for clean water
• Everyone lives in a watershed: short answers to frequently asked questions about watersheds

• Wetlands
  • All about wetlands
  • Caring for wetlands
  • Caring for wetlands Tweet
  • Wetland vs. stormwater pond
  • Wetland vs. stormwater pond_Somali
  • Wetland vs. stormwater pond_Spanish
  • Wetland vs. stormwater pond tweet
  • Wetland conservation act
  • Wetland conservation act tweet
  • Wetlands tweet

Videos

• Our Groundwater Connection
• What is stormwater? - Produced by students at the Institute of Production and Recording
• What can you do to prevent stormwater pollution - Produced by students at the Institute of Production and Recording
• "Open your eyes to freshwater's demise" - Savvy

Photos

• MPCA Flickr
• Join Watershed Partners for access to hundreds of high-quality stormwater photos

• Wetlands and ponds
  • Baby ducks in wetland
  • Frog searching
  • Hardwater Creek
  • Lake Plaisted open water
  • Lake Plaisted
  • Stormwater pond with turtles
  • Stormwater pond
  • Tamarack bog
  • Waterfowl
  • Wet meadow
  • Wetland research
  • Wetland
  • Wetland type 3
  • Wetland

• What is a watershed?
  • U.S. water map
  • Watershed stream

Additional resources

• Clean Water MN - for articles and print materials
• East Metro Water - for articles