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Proposed new water standards aren t for drinking water.
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Duluth News Tribune | 7:00 am, Apr. 18, 2021 ×
On its surface, the proposal seems alarming and misguided. What does the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency mean it wants to lower some standards for water quality in the Land of 10,000 Lakes?
Relax. The agency isn’t suggesting touching any standards for our drinking water. Those lofty benchmarks for purity ensuring that Minnesota remains “the land of sky blue waters,” as the Hamm’s brewery in St. Paul used to boast in song can be expected to remain intact.
Rather, the MPCA’s proposed changes would apply to waters used by industries like mining and for things like irrigation and livestock. More specifically, the proposal would remove numerical standards in favor of narrative standards for conductivity, hardness, sodium, and bicarbonates in waters meant for industry and irrigation. And they would allow for higher amounts of chloride, alkali
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