Outreach and Education Grant - Western Lake Superior Sanitation District
With MDH grant funds, WLSSD created a CEC toolkit that provides local household hazardous waste and local public health programs with high-quality, consistent messages to create public information appropriate for communities statewide.
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) provides solid waste oversight and wastewater treatment services for a 530 square mile region around Duluth, Minnesota. It is a special purpose unit of the government created to address serious environmental pollution in the lower St. Louis River Basin, and has been nationally recognized for its pollution prevention programs.
With MDH grant funds, WLSSD has created a CEC toolkit that provides local household hazardous waste and local public health programs with high-quality, consistent messages to create public information appropriate for communities statewide. The toolkit promotes identification, proper use, and proper disposal of toxic chemicals. It also promotes alternative products and practices to reduce the use of toxic chemicals. The toolkit is available at the Minnesota Pollution Control’s website.
$1,150,000 the first year and $1,150,000 the second are for addressing public health concerns related to contaminants found in Minnesota drinking water for which no health-based drinking water standards exist, including accelerating the development of health risk limits, including triclosan, and improving the capacity of the department's laboratory to analyze unregulated contaminants.
Develop Contaminants of Emerging Concern Toolkit, to include:
- Fifty royalty-free, high resolution photographs (pesticides, herbicides, mercury, pharmaceuticals, personal care products; residential settings; agricultural settings; people using alternative products; scenes of waterways; people using water in daily life; people enjoying water resources)
- Templates for billboards, brochures, postcards, and print advertising.
- Sample text and messages to promote understanding of CECs
- Video appropriate for social media and other informal messaging.
- Over fifty royalty-free, high resolution photographs (pesticides, herbicides, mercury, pharmaceuticals, personal care products; residential settings; agricultural settings; people using alternative products; scenes of waterways; people using water in daily life; people enjoying water resources)
- Templates for billboards, brochures, postcards, and print advertising.
- Sample text and messages to promote understanding of CECs
- Series of videos appropriate for social media and other informal messaging.
The toolkit is available here: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/waste/handle-care