For the first time ever, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency plans to monitor the water quality along the entire length of the Mississippi River in Minnesota in a single year.
The state will monitor water quality from more than 50 sites along the Mississippi River in Minnesota this year in an effort to get a broader picture of the health of the waterway. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced on Monday that water as well as aquatic life samples at locations from Bemidji to the Iowa border will be analyzed to provide data the 650-mile length of the river in .
The announcement was made Monday in recognition of Earth Day at an event along the river in St. Paul attended by leaders from the MPCA, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Agriculture and the Metropolitan Council.
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