City Water Education Partnership
March 2025 Water Education News Link
Rain barrel and compost bins available! Rain barrels must be ordered online from the Recycling Association of Minnesota. Select Carver County as your pickup location and use code “carver20” to receive $20 off. Rain barrels will be ready for pick up in May.
Compost bins are available at a discounted price of $56 from the Carver County Environmental Center now.
February 2025 Water Education News Link
The sun in out and the pavement is warming up.
If you have leftover salt sitting on bare pavement, sweep it up. Salt on bare pavement isn’t doing any work. Sweeping it up prevents it from getting blown, washed, or tracked elsewhere and ending up in our lakes, rivers or groundwater causing chloride pollution. Save the salt in a container to be used in the future.
In Minnesota, 68 lakes and rivers are over the state standard for chloride and 75 more are at risk. In Carver County, staff are seeing increasing trends on chloride concentrations in 19 lakes monitored. High chloride levels are toxic to fish, aquatic insects, and amphibians, and harm the aquatic ecosystem. It doesn’t take much – just one teaspoon of salt contains enough chloride to permanently pollute five gallons of water!