The goal to make Mississippi River in Minnesota swimmable, fishable

The MPCA says the upper Mississippi is largely healthy up north, but the quality drops south of St. Cloud.

[@elzebman9931]

It's so much better than it used to be even 10 years ago. I see beavers in the Minneapolis section now which is great. Hope to see continuing progress!

[@jbxz7s3]

The Mississippi River should be a national park/national waterway

[@MNHAM73]

It is in Minneapolis. www.nps.gov/miss/planyourvisit/basicinfo.htm

[@thebigguy8306]

Actually I think it is. I frequen Crosby Park in St Paul, and NPS gives guided tours of the foliage and the river

[@jeffreydadd7353]

It looks to me that the state is trying to make everyone else to blame for the run off and not the state for the the untreated over flowage out of the water treatment plant

[@thebigguy8306]

I know the area (we call Pool 2) between St Anthony Falls and Hastings, don't swim, don't eat the fish, it is like an open sewer. Agricultural run off from the Minnesota River, and the Waste Water Treatment Plant in St. Paul don't help

[@turtsable]

😂😂😂😂 move the city’s… only way you can make it clean.

[@BTHABIT.]

I'm rendomly here?? ❤🇧🇪🇺🇸

[@TruthMatters16]

Calling all Democrats to Minnesota for A Harris Walz Swim Party 😂

[@thomasklegstad8538]

Dude. Why don't you approve of this. You're a conservative. This is conservation. Rural Minnesotans go fishing. How is improving the quality of the largest river in the state for the purposes of fishing and swimming a bad thing? Give me one reason this is a bad thing besides the fact that it was a Democrat who proposed it.

[@Off-The-X]

I love your ignorance.... while you hide......and have to. Im your Huckelberry! See ya around kid!

[@truefact4439]

Kameltoe Harris + Tampon Tim = a bloody mess.

[@thomasklegstad8538]

@@truefact4439 like trumps maxipad ear? Lmao.

[@truefact4439]

@@thomasklegstad8538 Yes

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

A noble and past due attempt. But taxing citizens won’t change it ,the dem way.

[@thomasklegstad8538]

@@arthurbrumagem3844 real Americans are glad to pay tax. Real patriots take care of and take pride in their natural resources.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

@@thomasklegstad8538 real Americans want their taxes spent wisely. Taking a 18 billion dollar surplus ( usually means people were overtaxed ) and adding ten billion more in taxes isn’t spending wisely . Case in point - EVs don’t pay gas taxes so they don’t help pay for roads . The Dems in their infinite wisdom wouldn’t consider taxing EVs as those are most likely Dem voters. Instead they add a 50 cent charge to every delivered package of 100 dollars or more . Many of those getting packages don’t own a car or are older people who can’t drive and are subsidizing EV owners who obviously can pay more as EVs are cheap

[@WheelchairCharlie]

@@thomasklegstad8538 I believe the tea party folks had a different opinion. They are probably rolling in their graves.

[@thomasklegstad8538]

@@WheelchairCharlie taxation without representation was their gripe. We have representation. They were fine with taxes. Read a book

[@Jazz1959]

Walz is a joke! I she trying to make up for letting Minneapolis burn.

[@johnk2347]

oh geeze, minneapolis is fine. what are there like 10 buildings still damaged out of hundreds of thousands...? Get over it.

[@jeffreydadd7353]

It looks to me that the state is trying to make everyone else to blame for the run off and not the state for the the untreated over flowage out of the water treatment plant

[@thomasklegstad8538]

@@jeffreydadd7353 most river pollution is runoff from farms. Fertilizer, pesticides, and animal waste

[@jeffreydadd7353]

@@thomasklegstad8538 that is just a way that the governor office can blame someone else for what the city of Minneapolis has doing for years the fact is feed lots are not allowed to have runoff from there feed lots they have to have state permits so as usual it someone else’s responsibility

[@thomasklegstad8538]

@@jeffreydadd7353 so you're saying the millions of gallons of water pumped straight to drainage ditches which lead straight to rivers has zero pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers in it? Go drive down a country road. Every other field has drain tile pumping after every rainfall. Get real

[@thomasklegstad8538]

@@jeffreydadd7353 also, are you saying you're advocating for more industrial regulations? I can get behind that 👍🏽 finally something we agree on.