Virtual Project Tour

Take a virtual tour of some of our current partner-led efforts to protect and restore water resources in the Lower St. Croix Watershed. This tour showcases a variety of different types and scales of conservation practices, including: small-scale residential; large-scale agricultural; urban stormwater retrofits; and “capstone” projects that put water monitoring and pollution-reduction modeling into practice.

2021 Virtual Tour Destinations:

1. Shields Lake stormwater harvest, irrigation reuse, and alum treatment (Comfort Lake - Forest Lake Watershed in Washington Co)     

2. Sunrise River WMO small-scale residential practices (Anoka Co)

3. Oxford Township land protection opportunities (Isanti Co)

4. Cattle exclusion project to protect Rock Lake (Pine Co)

5. Chisago County water quality and aquatic invasive species monitoring

6. Mallery Jerseys large-scale agricultural practices (Chisago Co)

7. Marine on St. Croix community stormwater retrofit (Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix Watershed in Washington Co)

8. Lily Lake regional infiltration basin (Middle St. Croix Watershed in Washington Co)

9. Applewood Hills stormwater reuse project (Brown’s Creek Watershed in Washington Co)

10. Trout Brook stream re-meander in Afton Alps (South Washington Watershed in Washington Co)