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Article: Number of contaminated waterways in Minnesota up 24 percent.
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- Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2007
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Byline: John Weiss
Sep. 18--The list of Minnesota streams, lakes and rivers contaminated with too much bacteria from waste, sediment or phosphorus shot up 24 percent in two years.
But overall, the state's waters are considerably cleaner.
That's not a contradiction.
On the one hand, the number of impaired waters in a list given to the federal government grew from 1,182 in 2006 to 1,469 for the list the agency proposes to submit next year. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency recently came out with its draft list of waters with pollution levels that rose above a threshold limit.
What that reflects mostly is that more water has ...