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Ground Level

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Tag: groundwater

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 →

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Lawmakers discuss giving DNR tighter grip on irrigation, industrial water use

Elizabeth DunbarElizabeth Dunbar March 4, 2014, 2:54 PM Mar 4, 2014
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A Department of Natural Resources request for a bigger stick to deal with irrigators and other big water users who violate permit requirements has run into both backing and criticism at the Legislature. Read more →

Water

This nitrate chart looks worrisome. Is it?

Dave PetersDave Peters March 3, 2014, 9:47 AM Mar 3, 2014
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A rising percentage of new wells in Minnesota hit nitrate-contaminated water. It needs to be watched. Read more →

Water

Bonding to fill White Bear Lake, other water proposals surface at Capitol

Elizabeth DunbarElizabeth Dunbar February 26, 2014, 10:34 AM Feb 26, 2014
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Lawmakers will consider at least several water-related proposals this session, evidence of increasing interest in making sure Minnesota maintains reliable sources of water. Read more →

Water

Daily Circuit asks: How sustainable is our water use?

Dave PetersDave Peters February 21, 2014, 11:26 AM Feb 21, 2014
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Minnesota is rich in water, but our use of it seems less sustainable than it once did. Two state officials talked about water issues with Daily Circuit host Tom Weber. Read more →

Water

In west central Minnesota, ‘I thought water was limitless’

Dave PetersDave Peters February 19, 2014, 10:43 AM Feb 19, 2014
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Farmers in west central Minnesota have real reasons to conserve water. Read more →

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The layer cake beneath Park Rapids

Dan Gunderson February 13, 2014, 10:00 AM Feb 13, 2014
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Figuring out the geology beneath Park Rapids, Minn., is a good primer for how Minnesota’s groundwater situation is important, complicated and very local. Read more →

Water

Rising groundwater demand in Bonanza Valley prompts new state approach

Elizabeth DunbarElizabeth Dunbar January 22, 2014, 9:02 AM Jan 22, 2014
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Groundwater demand in an area of central Minnesota has increased by 175 percent in the past 25 years — five times as much as the state average, according to the Department of Natural Resources. That’s a big reason the Bonanza Valley, an area that stretches from southern Douglas County to Paynesville in Stearns County, is Read more →

Water

Meeting tonight for Park Rapids groundwater management area

Elizabeth DunbarElizabeth Dunbar January 15, 2014, 10:08 AM Jan 15, 2014
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Farmers, residents and others in the Park Rapids area are learning more tonight about a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources project to deal with, and possibly restrict, groundwater pumping. Read more →

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As east suburbs tighten groundwater use, Mpls wants to drill new wells

Elizabeth DunbarElizabeth Dunbar January 9, 2014, 1:41 PM Jan 9, 2014
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We’ve covered extensively the discussion happening in the north and east metro over concerns about the groundwater supply. Suburbs are trying to figure out how to use less water, and the Metropolitan Council has pushed the idea of getting more cities in the region to tap into surface water from the Mississippi River. Both Minneapolis Read more →

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