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Water Water Stewards

The Freshwater Society is accepting applications for a second class of volunteer Master Water Stewards. When you are accepted into the program, you will receive intensive training on how to protect the lakes and streams from pollution in your neighborhood.  Everything on city streets flows to our water - oil from cars, bacteria, salt, litter, sediment, fertilizer. Each year, more polluted runoff reaches our lakes and rivers. Your yard is connected to rivers, lakes, and streams, and you can make a difference in keeping water clean and healthy.

Master Water Stewards is a partnership between the Freshwater Society and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District funded by a state Clean Water Fund grant.  In 2014, the program is available at no charge to participants, and is limited to 30 residents of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District.

The program works to recruit, inspire and train citizen volunteers who work in their own communities to organize and build projects to keep storm water and the pollutants carried by storm water from flowing into lakes and streams.

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This fall, members of the first class of Master Water Stewards have been installing rain gardens, rain barrels and water-permeable walkways in neighborhoods around Minnehaha Creek and the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes.

Now the program is recruiting volunteers for the 2014 class.  If you are interested in becoming a Master Water Steward, please visit the website at www.masterwaterstewards.org and attend an informational session:

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·         Tuesday, Oct. 22, 6:30-7:30 p.m., at the MCWD office, 15320 Minnetonka Blvd, Minnetonka.

·         Tuesday, Oct. 29, 7:30-8:30 p.m., at the Pearl Park Recreation Center, 414 Diamond Lake Rd, Minneapolis.

·         Tuesday, Nov. 5, 6:30-7:30 p.m., MCWD.

·         Tuesday, Nov. 19 7:30-8:30 p.m., Pearl Park Recreation Center.

·         Tuesday, Dec. 3, 6:30-7:30 p.m., MCWD.

·         Tuesday, Dec. 17, 6:30-7:30 p.m. MCWD.

For more information about the program contact Peggy Knapp at pknapp@freshwater.org or (763) 219-1252.

For 2014, the program is open only to residents of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District. Find out if you live in the district

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