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Article: 125,000-gallon manure spill spurs warning; Olmsted County officials issued concerns that drinking-water wells could be contaminated.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 19, 1998
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State pollution officials confirmed late Wednesday that about 125,000 gallons of manure spilled from a dairy feedlot in southern Olmsted County and entered the ground water and northern branch of the Root River. The Olmsted County Public Health Department issued a warning that 15 to 20 drinking-water wells in the vicinity may be contaminated and advised residents to use only bottled water for drinking, cooking, dishwashing and other consumption-related purposes.
"There's always concern about any manure release into the ground water," said Wendy Turri, supervisor in the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's regional office in Rochester. She said that the MPCA is ...
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