Water quality: A Minnesota maelstrom

[NickB79]

http://www.startribune.com/water-quality-a-minnesota-maelstrom/402778996/

"When it comes to protecting water, Minnesota voters have stepped up twice, by amending the state Constitution to raise funds through the State Lottery and by expanding the sales tax. The result is tens of millions of dollars spent annually on the state’s storied lakes and rivers.

So, with all that spending, water quality must be improving, right?

No, say multiple state reports. In fact, things are getting worse.

Last year Gov. Mark Dayton declared that water quality decline is “serious.” He assembled a daylong water summit in February, and he’s now embarked on a campaign to explain to a tuned-out public that the problem really is as bad as reports say.

But despite all the spending, planning and persuading — and faux cooing about “success” — the quality of lakes, rivers and groundwater continues to slide."

Soon to be the Land of 10,000 Polluted Lakes, at this rate. I'm no longer comfortable eating fish from the local lakes and rivers; at best I use the trash fish like carp for garden fertilizer now.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Well,if you live south of

Hwy 19,chances are you are all ready on some type of Rural Privatize Water System do to Nitrate Contamination of the Ground Water used for drinking. This has been a on going problem since the middle sixties and the State turned a blind eye when it was first reported.

Oh BTW,the Water for these Rural Systems comes from South Dakota. Just got to love it!!

[NickB79]

3. We're outside Northfield

About 40 min south of the Mall of America.

On a private well, but so far no dangerous levels of nitrate contamination (yet).

[Wellstone ruled]

4. No the area very well.

For the most part,your water has a elevated Lime Content,and some iron. Rural water in your area is along Hwy 30 which by the way was the first Pipeline into Southern Minnesota. There again,the Well terminus in near Flandru,South Dakota.

Most of the Communities in and around your area have had to drill new wells into deeper water sources in order to comply with your state water quality standards. This is only a temporary fix as the Nitrate plumes work their way deeper and deeper.

[pansypoo53219]

2. HUMANS are messy.