Are you concerned about human-caused fertilizer and sediment pollution in our rivers, lakes, and drinking water supplies?

Despite decades of hard work from local and state government staff and many conservation-minded landowners, our rivers, lakes, and drinking water supplies are still getting dirtier and dirtier. Nitrate fertilizer and salt pollution continues to rise in the Cannon River in Southeastern Minnesota.

But despite these challenges, there is a lot we can do for cleaner water in the Cannon River Watershed. The first thing you can do it to attend a local “25 by 25” Clean Water Town Hall Meeting on Monday, Oct. 2, 6:00-8: pm at the Northfield Public Library (210 Washington St. Northfield, MN).

At the meeting, you can share your clean water concerns and talk with other community members about how we can work together to envision, evaluate, and enact projects and policies to clean up our rivers, lakes, and drinking water. All ideas from this local meeting will be uploaded to Governor Mark Dayton’s “25 by 25” website as a way to gather ideas that will help the State of Minnesota achieve 25% Cleaner Water by the year 2025. (Currently we are on track to only improve water quality by 6% by 2034, if we’re lucky).