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Grand Rapids Public Utilities and the Minnesota Department of Health will share updates on the city's Legionnaires' disease outbreak at a Yanmar Arena meeting.
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Grand Rapids is addressing the Legionnaires' outbreak with the Department of Health collaboration and considering a potential chlorination system installation.
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Judge James E. LaFave says the company’s solution for storing waste at the site by lining a tailings pond with bentonite clay is not a “practicable or workable reclamation technique.”
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The council unanimously agreed to direct staff to pursue a claim in this class action lawsuit with a group of companies known as DuPont.
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The lake is near the shuttered Dunka taconite mining site. The site was closed almost 30 years ago and has long been a source of concern for water quality advocates.
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This is often the time of year when new infestations are discovered as people remove equipment from the water, the DNR stated.
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Part of the cultural event was what organizers described as impromptu tours to nearby sites, including the Talon Metals mine site and the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline corridor, pointing out nearby lakes, rivers and wetlands.
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Cody Sheik, a microbial ecologist at the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota, joined the KAXE Morning Show to discuss how aquatic microorganisms, particularly cyanobacteria, can impact the health of humans and domestic animals.
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Plus an agreement to reduce plastic pollution in the Mississippi River, new water regulations on the White Earth Reservation and more time to haul storm debris in St. Louis County.
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Mayors from Minnesota to Louisiana converged in Bemidji last week for the annual meeting of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative to announce a new project aimed at preventing plastic pollution.