City, parks and watershed district team up to repair Minnehaha Creek, clean up Lake Hiawatha
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 ...
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