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Governor Dayton’s Town halls on Water Quality Continue This Week

Governor Dayton’s Town halls on Water Quality Continue This Week

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Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton’s town hall meetings on water quality continue this week with sessions tonight (Tues 630-830pm) in Crookston and tomorrow in Saint Cloud.  The state’s new buffer law, designed to reduce runoff from farm fields into rivers and lakes, was a topic of discussion at earlier meetings in southern Minnesota.  State Pollution Control Agency Commissioner John Linc Stine

 

Water quality town hall meetings continue next week in Ely and Bemidji.  They wrap up in the Twin Cities in late September and early October.  Dayton has set the goal of improving Minnesota’s water quality 25 percent by 2025.

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