Open Channel News

Open Channel News is a news bulletin that serves the industrial customers of Metropolitan Council Environmental Services. The newsletter provides information that may affect industrial customer business, such as industrial user rates and fees, reporting requirements, emerging pretreatment program concerns, and other wastewater issues.


2022 September Open Channel News
 

September 2022

  • Recent sewer system emergencies call for interagency response
  • Fats, oils, grease, and rags task force Be part of the solution
  • Consumers can help reduce PFAS in the environment
  • Updating the Sampling Results SMR templates
  • Watch how MCES receives liquid waste from haulers on YouTube
  • Is your business changing ownership? Prior approval is needed to transfer your MCES permit
  • Robert Golden retired August 5
  • MCES 2023 adopted rates and fees
  • 2022 Industrial User rates and fees
  • Let’s stay connected!

 


Cover of April 2022 Open Channel Newsletter

April 2022

  • MCES 2022 customer workshops
  • MCES 2021 performance report is now available
  • Compliance is required regardless of supply chain shortages
  • Local limits evaluation concludes no changes
  • Rags down the drain cause clogs down the pipe
  • Regional wastewater service expanded to Loretto
  • MnTAP’s 2021 interns provide big saving solutions for local industries
  • Special Discharge Program website
  • MCES COVID-19 update
  • Peter Sandberg retires
  • 2022 Industrial User rates and fees
  • Let’s stay connected!

Cover of November 2021 Open Channel Newsletter

November 2021

  • Tina Nelson is the new Industrial Waste manager
  • Meet Jami Haider, our new administrative specialist
  • IORS 5-year anniversary
  • Council’s internship program is a great success for IWPP and interns
  • Drought put aquatic life at risk, calling MCES into action
  • Meet our newest technicians
  • Kevin Rogers retires after 41 years
  • Missed the 2021 customer workshop?
  • 2022 Industrial User rates and fees
  • Let’s stay connected!