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Board meetings
Our board meetings are held the 3rd Wednesday of every month, from 7 pm to about 9:30 pm, at the Chaska City Hall. For maps, go to the Contact page. For a list of specific meeting dates, plus meeting minutes and agendas, go to the Meetings page.
District managers prepare for the Jan 8, 2008 board meeting. Left to right, they are Larry Samstad, Scott Cty; Ed Schlampp, Hennepin Cty; Len Kremer, Hennepin Cty; and Ron Kraemer, Dakota Cty. |
NEWS STORIES
From time to time, we publish stories about issues that our various audiences are most interested in. These stories are listed below in reverse chronological order.
Larry Samstad, engineer and steward of District land and water
Scott County Manager Larry Samstad — formerly consulting engineer to the District — is winding down a long and active career. His memories and accomplishments are rehearsed in this article about the remarkable man.
Fishing the Minnesota River
Just how much has the river recovered in the past 30 years? Quite a way, according to experts and amateurs alike, including those who regularly fish the river (one of the best kept secrets in the region). And yet we still have a way to go.
2006 river cruise — a floating Chautauqua on TMDLs
The annual Minnesota River cruise embarked on Thursday, Aug. 24 from the CHS terminal in Savage and disembarked four hours later at Harriet Island in St. Paul. Experts gave brief talks jon everything from the geology of the Minnesota River to the exact conditions of the river's water.
Click here for text, photos, and video of the 2006 tour.
Click here for a photo-essay on our 2005 cruise.
Clarence Kelzer's farm plows on amid new developments
In Chaska, Clarence and Steve Kelzer are the fourth and fifth generations of Kelzers on the land. While the surrounding area is being developed aggressively, the Kelzers go on farming, bravely and sustainably, in part to such practices as contour tillage which Clarence learned and introduced to Carver County in the 1940s.
Contour farming in the south metro area
This version of the contour farming article discusses not only the Kelzer farm in Chaska but the
Ratzlaff farm in Scott County
and the Chamberlain farm in Dakota County.
Becki White's 4th graders stencil Shakopee's storm drains
In Shakopee, Mrs. Becki White's 4th graders at Sweeney Elementary took on an ambitious community project this spring. They learned all about stormwater management, wrote letters to Shakopee officials, placed notices on bulletin boards at Cub and Rainbow, and, best of all, spraypainted stencils on city stormwater drains warning citizens not to dump into the drains. Read the full story!
What is a watershed? And why should you care?
Click above to get the full text of the article we published, May 2006, on just what a watershed is. And why we should be concerned about it. The article was also published in the Sun-Current newspapers. |
