Minnesota’s aging water treatment plants and sewer systems will start getting some much needed improvements if DFL Gov. Mark Dayton has his way.
Dayton on Thursday proposed a $220 million plan for water and sewer systems. It’s the next step in a water quality agenda that the governor began last year when he pushed for a buffer strip requirement to prevent farm field runoff.
Dayton says Minnesota’s clean, safe and abundant water supply can no longer be taken for granted and that many rural communities are struggling with the added cost of lowering levels of nitrates, phosphorus and other chemicals in drinking water.
He wants a significant government investment to help those communities but also wants to get citizens involved in protecting water from further contamination.
“Everybody needs to understand it’s their responsibility for whatever it is that they’re putting into the public sphere being a quality and standard that they would want their own children to be exposed to. That’s going to take some time, but we’re going to work on in it,” Dayton told reporters. “I’m going to make it a priority, as I did last session, for the remaining three years of my term, and I think we can make some important progress.” For the full article click here
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