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Environmental Quality Board adopts 2025 Groundwater Policy Report, highlights nitrate, PFAS and monitoring gaps
Summary
EQB adopted a multi-agency groundwater policy report that summarizes state monitoring, threats (nitrate, PFAS, geogenic contaminants), successes and gaps; the board voted to approve the report for submission to the legislature and publication.
The Environmental Quality Board voted to adopt its 2025 Groundwater Policy Report, a multi-agency compilation required by statute that summarizes groundwater monitoring, threats, agency roles and opportunities for coordination.
Executive Director Catherine Duschler presented the report and told the board it was produced under Minnesota Statutes section 103A (the transcript referred to the statute as 103A), with three required appendices attached: an assessment of water quality trends and prevention, a groundwater monitoring status report, and a water availability assessment. Duschler described the report as focused on coordination and information-sharing among state agencies, local governments and stakeholders.
Key findings and focus areas: the report sets an overarching goal that Minnesotans have…
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