The sediments were contaminated by a number of historical sources in the watershed, and continue to be contaminated by several nonpoint sources today. The Sediment Contamination Work Group is currently composed of about 30 people.
New members are always welcome.
Meetings Meetings are held bimonthly, excluding the summer months. This strategy provides an incentive to remediate upstream sites first, so that downstream sites will not be cleaned up and then re-contaminated. MPCA has conducted several sediment investigations to implement this sediment strategy. These reservoirs are located in the upstream portion of the AOC and received several wastewater discharges prior to 1978. Sediment toxicity tests were also performed.