The Clean Sweep program is hosting a morning of webinars to provide attendees with the tools, training and resources needed to develop or enhance a street sweeping program for water quality.
Join the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Sea Grant and the University of Minnesota Water Resources Center on November 19 for one or more sessions on enhanced street sweeping:
- 10:00-10:25 a.m.: Why Sweep for Water Quality?
- 10:30-10:55 a.m.: Developing an Enhanced Street Sweeping Plan.
- 11:00-11:25 a.m.: How to Use the Quick Estimating Tool (QET).
- 11:30 a.m.-noon: Case Studies from Cities & Watershed Districts.
These free webinars are open to the public. Registration is required to attend one or all sessions.
When
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
10:00 a.m. to noon CT
Registration
Registration is required to attend one or all sessions.
Session Details
- 10:00-10:25 a.m.: Why Sweep for Water Quality?
- This session will highlight the multiple benefits of targeted sweeping, and provide you with tools, resources and strategies to help you communicate these benefits to your organization, partners, funders, local decisionmakers and the general public.
- 10:30-10:55 a.m.: Developing an Enhanced Street Sweeping Plan.
- This session will walk you through the steps of developing an enhanced street sweeping plan that helps make strides towards achieving your water quality goals, including methods of estimating tree canopy cover and simple time and cost estimating tools.
- 11:00-11:25 a.m.: How to Use the Quick Estimating Tool (QET).
- This session will focus on how to use the updated Quick Estimating Tool (2025), which was created to provide a comprehensive, customized option for estimating the amount of total solids removed, an estimated phosphorus credit, annual program costs, and the estimated number of working days for different enhanced street sweeping scenarios.
- 11:30 a.m.-noon: Case Studies from Cities & Watershed Districts.
- This session will highlight several different enhanced street sweeping programs that have been successfully implemented in Minnesota, followed by Q&A.
Event Host & Partner
Minnesota Sea Grant and the Water Resources Center's Clean Sweep program partnered with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for this event. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is also the co-host of the event.
Contact
Maggie Karschnia, stormwater extension educator, Minnesota Sea Grant & Water Resources Center. [email protected].
Image credit: MNSG.