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BY Jeff Axtell/Chad Moyer | December 17, 2020 The Lower Elkhorn NRD is holding a virtual informational meeting on the potential of a groundwater management area in Cuming, Colfax, and Dodge Counties through Zoom Thursday night. Assistant Manager Brian Bruckner says the focus of the meeting will be on high nitrate levels in drinking water. Bruckner says the meeting will go into specific details about what has been detected and what kind of percentages of wells maintain the necessary concentration. Nitrate is found naturally in the environment; however, excess nitrate comes primarily from the use of commercial fertilizers (both organic and manufactured). Nitrate dissolves readily in water and when carried through the soil below plant roots can easily contaminate groundwater. ....