It's About Our Environment

This is my first post to a site dedicated to preventing stormwater pollution in Minnesota. I came to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) in Aug. 2005 and I've been helping the stormwater program develop communication tools.

I'm new to stormwater, but I'm new to environmental protection in general. Before I came to the MPCA, I worked as an editor of a small newspaper in Scandia, MN called the Country Messenger (link may not work yet because the newspaper is developing a Web edition right now). Water issues were big there, especially for the residents of Marine-on-St. Croix who were getting into some contentious planning committee meetings over "impervious surfaces" and "viewshed."