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Description: Lessons learned at Empire facility guide state policies
Lessons learned at Empire facility guide state policies
The Metropolitan Council Environmental Services' (MCES) visionary leadership and close collaboration with regional partners have been key to advancing integrated water management in the US state of Minnesota. The authors explain how the process began with the Empire water resource recovery facility expansion project.
Author(s)
Karen Jensen
SourceArticle from World Water: Stormwater Management Magazine Autumn Issue
Project IDSWM68
SubjectSpring issue
Document typeMagazine article
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Print publication date Aug 2018
Volume / Issue6 / 1
Content sourceWorld Water: Stormwater Management
First / last page(s)16 - 17
Copyright2018
Word count1,676
Subject keywordsIntegrated Water Management
Associated keywords:water resource recoveryOne Watergreen infrastructurewastewater reuseonsite stormwater treatmentstreambank stabilizationwetlandhabitat restoration

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Description: Lessons learned at Empire facility guide state policies
Case study
Lessons learned at Empire facility guide state policies
The Empire wastewater treatment plant was originally constructed in the early 1970s with a capacity of 45.4 mid. Rapid suburban development in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in the cities of Apple Valley, Lakeville, and Farmington, led to its expansion to 90.8 mid, which was completed in 2007. During expansion planning, MCES collaborated with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Copyright2018
Word count725
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Description: Lessons learned at Empire facility guide state policies
Conclusions
Lessons learned at Empire facility guide state policies
The Empire facility represents a unique example of One Water principles applied at a water resource recovery facility. Green infrastructure installed within the process area has directed runoff to the shallow groundwater system, eliminating surface runoff to the nearby protected cold-water trout stream. Large restoration projects outside of the process area, including a wet meadow wetland and...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Copyright2018
Word count159
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Description: Lessons learned at Empire facility guide state policies
Authors’ Note
Lessons learned at Empire facility guide state policies
Karen Jensen, Patricia Oates, Deborah Manning, Jennifer Kostrzewski, John (Jack) Borland, and Katherine (Rene) Heflin of the MCES, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, contributed to the article. References are available upon request by email: karen.jensen@metc.state.mn.us
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Copyright2018
Word count39
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Lessons learned at Empire facility guide state policies