Attention Consultants: The Pomme de Terre Watershed Planning Area will be starting the One Watershed, One Plan Planning Process this year that will funnel the number of county water management plans and other collective planning documents into one comprehensive watershed plan to promote increased collaboration and project prioritization on a watershed scale. More information on...Read More

POSITION FILLED – 3/3/2017 PDTRA is now looking to hire a seasonal field technician to collect water quality data in the Pomme de Terre Watershed for the 2017 field season! The Water Quality Monitoring Technician for the Pomme de Terre River Association (PDTRA) is a seasonal field position (late March – late September). The technician...Read More

Monitoring the quality of water within our natural river system is very important in determining whether the water is suitable for fishing, swimming, and biological life. In 2014, the river association received a Federal 319 grant to collect water samples, during the 2016 and 2017 field seasons, on Pelican Creek (160th St.), Muddy Creek (490th...Read More

What a year 2015 has been for the Pomme de Terre River Association (PDTRA). Through funding from the Clean Water, Federal 319, and County Funds the association, in terms of conservation, has had a tremendously successful year. The beginning of the year started out with a bang as we received $387,146.00 from the states Clean...Read More

The Pomme de Terre River Association, along with many watershed residents, canoed down the river this past July. Everyone had a blast even though they had to put up with Jared’s random ecology comments.Read More

Last winter we visited the Morris Area High School to assist in the creation of table top stream models. The high school students were then able to share their new found knowledge with some 1st graders.Read More

A presentation about water quality was given at the Morris Elementary School’s science fair last year. Students jumped when Jared ignited a ballon filled with hydrogen in order to demonstrate the inefficiency of creating water.Read More

In 2012, the Pomme de Terre River Association, along with several partners, installed stream barbs (Rock structures) at the Mill Dam in Morris, MN. These barbs divert the rivers energy away from the shoreline and back to the middle of the channel.Read More