Bulletin Board
Announcements
Quality & Innovation Award: Celebrating EOR Talent
Summer 2010
'EOR Q&I Award' highlights outstanding professional dedication.
ART@EOR: Featured Artist - Aylssa Wendorff
Summer 2010
'ART at EOR' features the work of local artists who draw inspiration from the world around them, causing us to view our humanity and our world in new and different ways.
Announcing the Blue Star Award!
- celebrating community stormwater management
Summer 2010
In partnership with the Friends of the Mississippi River, EOR is proud to announce the Blue Star Award Program for communities that excel in stormwater management. As part of the MPCA's GreenStep Program, the Blue Star Award Program allows communities to perform assessments on key practices that affect our State's most precious natural resource - water.
EOR Receives 2010 Environmental Initiative Award:
Arlington-Pascal Stormwater Improvement Projects
Summer 2010
We are happy to announcement that the Arlington-Pascal Stormwater Improvements received the 2010 Environmental Initiative Award for Natural Resource Protection and Restoration from the Minnesota Environmental Initiative (MEI). Completed for the Capitol Region Watershed District, these projects have reduced pollutants from entering Como Lake, significantly improving the lake's water quality.
Sustainability Planning + Guidance Frameworks
Spring 2010
Continuously advancing resources management, EOR is building on the development of MN's first municipality adopted Sustainability Plan and is currently aiding multiple communities & campuses in drafting guidance frameworks to address sustainability and climate action concerns, such as waste, energy, greenhouse gas, and carbon reductions, to name a few.
Industrial Stormwater Permitting - 2010 Updates
Spring 2010
EOR developed both the 2010 Permit Compliance Calendar and the Sector-Specific Pollution Prevention Fact Sheets for the MPCA's recently updated Stormwater Program for Industrial Activity. Learn more about the new updates and how EOR can help you navigate this process.
2010 Receives ACEC-MN Grand Award:
Arlington-Pascal Stormwater Improvement Projects
A great start to 2010!
EOR has been recognized by the Minnesota chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) for their Arlington-Pascal Stormwater Improvement projects which involved a series of best management practice (BMP) engineering facilities throughout the Como neighborhood in St. Paul, MN. These projects have helped reduced neighborhood flooding, as well as improve the water quality of Como Lake.
EOR + Biotic Impairments / Biotic TMDLs
Fall 2009
New contributions from EOR's TMDL group include the guidance for Red River Basin biotic impairment assessments and the recent EPA-approved Hardwood Creek Impaired Biota (Fish) and Low DO TMDL, one of the first biotic TMDLs in Minnesota. The group is currently completing another biotic TMDL for Brown's Creek, as well as many other conventional TMDL studies.
EOR's New Dive Team
Summer 2009
EOR's Dive Team was busy conducting mussel species surveys on the Swan River this summer - learn more about EORs mussel surveying, relocation, and monitoring programs.
EOR Part of Research Team Addressing Climate Change
Spring 2009
Camilla Correll has been awarded a grant from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) as part of a research team that will examine the potential effects of climate change through the adaptation of shoreline best management practices (BMPs).
City Council Adopts Burnsville's Sustainability Plan
Early Spring 2009
EOR worked with the City of Burnsville and led a large team of experts and stakeholders in the drafting of the first Sustainability Plan to be adopted by a municipality in Minnesota.
EOR Receives 2008 MAWD Project of the Year
Winter 2008
EOR's extensive Arlington-Pascal Stormwater Improvement Project, completed for the Capitol Region Watershed District, has been awarded the Minnesota Association of Watershed District's (MAWD) 2008 Project of the Year.
St. Paul Riverfront Projects Nearing Completion
Summer/Fall 2008
EOR has been very active on many key projects in the St. Paul Riverfront Area and is proud to contribute to the City of St. Paul's effort in reclaiming and revitalizing its historic riverfront along one of America's most enduring rivers - the mighty Mississippi.
Construction Complete on Poplar River's 'Mega Slump'
Summer 2008
In addition to assisting the Poplar River stream restoration in Lutsen MN, EOR is also stabilizing one of the contributing factors that led to the stream's deterioration: a steep and severely eroded red clay bank that has infamously come to be known in Minnesota's Arrowhead region as the
'Mega Slump' project.