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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is a Minnesota state agency that monitors environmental quality, offers technical and financial assistance, and enforces environmental regulations for the State of Minnesota. The MPCA finds and cleans up spills and leaks that can affect public health and the environment.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Minnesota designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
MPCA may refer to: Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association, the governing body of cricket activities in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; Manpower Citizens' Association, a trade union in Guyana; Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, a Minnesota state agency; Motion Picture Corporation of America, an American film production company
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) announced on Monday they will be monitoring the water quality throughout the Mississippi River in Minnesota. MPCA to sample entire Minnesota portion ...
There are two volatile organic compounds of concern in the groundwater contaminant plume - trichloroethylene (TCE) and carbon tetrachloride.The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) believes that use of the chlorinated solvent TCE at a former metal working facility at the location of the Hagberg Country Market was the major source of site ground water contamination.
At the POTW, harmful pollutants in domestic sewage, called conventional pollutants, are removed from the sewage and then the treated effluent is discharged into a surface water body. [38] The removed solids constitute sewage sludge, which typically receive further treatment prior to final disposal on land. (See Sewage sludge treatment.) POTWs ...
A publicly owned treatment works (POTW) is a term used in the United States for a sewage treatment plant owned, and usually operated, by a government agency. In the U.S., POTWs are typically owned by local government agencies, and are usually designed to treat domestic sewage and not industrial wastewater.
In 1967 the Minnesota Legislature created the Metropolitan Council in response to growing issues of septic tank wastewater contamination. [2] At the time, the region consisted of "172 cities, 97 townships, and 76 school districts". [2] The region also faced issues with a deteriorating privately-owned bus system. [2] [7]