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Ground Level

MPR News How communities are facing the future

Archives for April 2014

How will climate change affect groundwater?

Dave PetersDave Peters April 21, 2014, 8:39 AM Apr 21, 2014
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Climate change might change when and how fast rain falls, and that, in turn, could have a dramatic effect on how fast groundwater is recharged. Read more →

Water

Across rural Minnesota, water woes threaten to choke small town growth

Dave PetersDave Peters April 16, 2014, 7:00 AM Apr 16, 2014
1

A rural Minnesota research group is suggesting that water availability is becoming an economic bottleneck and that development is being threatened by a need to re-build water and sewage systems around the state. Read more →

Water

Drinking from a limestone quarry in Burnsville and Savage

Dave PetersDave Peters April 15, 2014, 7:00 AM Apr 15, 2014
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Burnsville and Savage find a water solution that preserves a sensitive environmental area and gives some assurance for a long-time supply of drinking water. Read more →

Water

What would you do with $1 million to spend on water?

Dave PetersDave Peters April 12, 2014, 11:22 AM Apr 12, 2014
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A symposium on water in Minneapolis ended with the question, what would you do with a million dollars to spend on water in Minnesota? It got three different answers that had something in common. Read more →

Water

5 facts every Minnesotan should know about groundwater based irrigation

Michael OlsonMichael Olson April 10, 2014, 1:54 PM Apr 10, 2014
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Five takeaways from an online chat about groundwater, irrigation and how everyone can find someone else who’s wasting water. Read more →

Broadband

Gov. Dayton backs broadband spending

Dave PetersDave Peters April 10, 2014, 9:17 AM Apr 10, 2014
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Gov. Dayton joins the call to spend money on broadband infrastructure. So far, the House wants to spend $25 million; the Senate has not approved any spending. Read more →

Water

Senate approves tougher water permit rules for DNR

Dave PetersDave Peters April 9, 2014, 1:57 PM Apr 9, 2014
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The Minnesota Senate approved legislation that would give the Department of Natural Resources more authority to fine irrigators and others who use large amounts of groundwater without a permit. Read more →

Water

Environmental group questions Senate funds for White Bear Lake solution

Elizabeth DunbarElizabeth Dunbar April 9, 2014, 11:57 AM Apr 9, 2014
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Friends of the Mississippi River says a Senate proposal to spend $800,000 studying whether to fill White Bear Lake with river water is a bad idea. It doesn’t solve the larger problem and it’s already being studied by the Metropolitan Council, the group says. Read more →

Broadband

Minnesota’s rural broadband gap shrinks

Dave PetersDave Peters April 9, 2014, 10:40 AM Apr 9, 2014
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Broadband adoption continues to rise slowly among Minnesotans, and the gap between rural and urban use is shrinking. But more than 100,000 school-age children do not have access at home. Read more →

Water

How we did the irrigation well permit story

Dave PetersDave Peters April 7, 2014, 4:00 AM Apr 7, 2014
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How MPR News found hundreds of irrigation wells pumping groundwater without a required state permit. Read more →

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