Mississippi Watershed Management Organization to Get New Home on the Riverfront

From The Journal:

The new riverfront headquarters for the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization is actually one big science experiment.

Staff will monitor a rooftop “salsa garden” of edible plants, comparing the water that pours off the green roof to water that pours off an empty roof nearby. They will plant and uproot different types of trees over time, so they can measure how much water the trees suck out of the ground. And they will check to see if pharmaceuticals and other new pollutants are starting to come down in rainwater.

“Our entire site is really all around that discovery piece,” said the organization’s executive director Doug Snyder.

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