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Committee hears bill to fund well treatment, repairs for nitrate-impacted households in Southeast Minnesota
Summary
Representative Jacobs’ House File 821 would appropriate $3,866,000 per year for treatment systems and well repairs for low-income and vulnerable households with nitrate-contaminated wells; the committee laid the bill over after hearing testimony and implementation details from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.
Representative Jacobs told the House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee that House File 821 would continue and expand funding to supply safe drinking water to households in Southeast Minnesota whose private wells exceed safe nitrate levels.
Jay Idesnes, senior staff attorney at the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, testified that roughly three quarters of Minnesotans depend on groundwater and that private-well owners are responsible for testing…
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