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Oak Park Heights requests $1.55M for PFAS treatment design; council seeks state help for small city
Summary
Oak Park Heights asked for $1.55 million in bonding to fund engineering and design for a PFAS water treatment plant; city leaders said the community of under 5,000 residents cannot absorb the full cost without assistance.
Oak Park Heights council member Mike Lildegren and city administrators appeared before the Capital Investment Committee on Feb. 27 to request $1,550,000 for design and engineering work on a PFAS treatment project.
Lildegren said Oak Park Heights has detected PFAS in its municipal water supply and that the city—which has fewer than 5,000 residents—needs state help to fund preconstruction work. He said the city obtained a grant for feasibility and predesign work and now seeks bonding assistance for the next step so it can pursue construction grants and build a treatment plant.
Nut graf: Presenters emphasized that small cities face disproportionate burdens for PFAS treatment and that funding design and engineering is a common early barrier to accessing larger construction grants.
City staff said they would follow up with the committee on how the city system and other local facilities (including correctional facilities in the city) relate to the broader water network, and they offered to provide details on planning and cost estimates.
Ending: The committee received the request as informational; no funding decision was taken at the hearing.
