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Research in Whitewater River valley and BWSR's water-storage tool presented to LCCMR
Summary
The commission heard two completed ENRTF-funded projects: University of Minnesota research documenting large historic sedimentation in the Whitewater River valley, and a Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) project that used LIDAR and PTMApp to locate and prioritize landscape water-storage sites.
The commission received two final reports and presentations from projects funded through the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund.
University of Minnesota: Andrew Wickert, professor at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, summarized a multi-year effort to digitize and analyze a long-term archive of river cross-section surveys and soil borings in the Whitewater River valley of southeast Minnesota. Using transects recorded between 1939 and 1994 and soil borings reaching pre-Euro-American surface levels (circa…
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