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.

PDF of the October 2024 issue

October 2024

  • Celebrating Peak Performance
  • Implementing an inspection checklist
  • Spill prevention and preparedness reminders
  • Identifying PFAS sources
  • 2025 Industrial User rates and fees approved in July
  • 2024 Industrial User rates and fees
  • Let’s stay connected!
PDF of the April 2024 issue

April 2024

  • PFAS Management Plan to be finalized by June 30
  • 2024 Industrial Customer Workshops
  • Finance charges reinstated
  • Tour the Metro Plant virtually
  • New spill reporting poster
  • FOG and rags toolkit and outreach materials now available
  • Meet our newly hired technicians
  • 2024 Industrial user rates and fees
  • Let’s stay connected!
PDF of the September 2023 issue

September 2023

  • MCES responds to FOG task force recommendations
  • MCES treatment plants achieve Peak Performance status
  • IPIP is closing at the end of this year. IPIP phase II to be determined
  • Important Industrial Online Reporting System (IORS) updates
  • MnTAP’s 2023 intern projects result in big saving solutions for local industries
  • Please welcome our new permit staff
  • 2024 Industrial User rates and fees adopted by Met Council
  • Let’s stay connected!