City, Park Board and Minnehaha Watershed District launching new partnership to repair water problems in south Minneapolis, clean up Lake Hiawatha startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Minnehaha Creek has long been treated like a glorified drainage ditch as it flows downstream from Lake Minnetonka through south Minneapolis, dumping street runoff into the Mississippi River. A new partnership seeks to redefine the creek's relationship with the people who live along its banks and play in the lakes fed by its polluted water. Modeled after the 1991 Clean Water Partnership that .
High water levels have wreaked havoc in a section of south Minneapolis, flooding basements, turning fields to marshes and causing sewer lines and pipes to break.
Record rainfall combined with the historic mistake of developing homes over peat deposits poses a threat to Nokomis area homes and public infrastructure, a multi-agency white paper has found.