Environmental, Conservation Groups Apply Pressure on Nitrate Contamination in SE Minnesota

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Environmental and conservation groups apply pressure on nitrate contamination in SE Minnesota - Austin Daily Herald

By Clay Masters Even in retirement from a hydrology career, Paul Wotzka keeps tabs on soil layers in southeastern Minnesota’s bluff country. “We have a groundwater sensitive parameter down here,” Wotzka, a prior state regulator, said about southeast Minnesota’s Driftless region known for its sweeping limestone bluffs, swiss-cheese like karst and cool water trout streams. Not far away but in the same region, Jennifer Biederman watches on behalf o…

Environmental, conservation groups apply pressure on nitrate contamination in SE Minnesota

WEAVER, Minn. — Even in retirement from a hydrology career, Paul Wotzka keeps tabs on soil layers in southeastern Minnesota’s bluff country. “We have a groundwater sensitive parameter down here,” Wotzka, a prior state regulator, said about southeast Minnesota’s Driftless region, known for its sweeping limestone bluffs, Swiss-cheese -like karst and cool water trout streams. Not far away but in the same region, Jennifer Biederman watches on behalf…

Environmental, conservation groups apply pressure on nitrate contamination in southeast Minnesota

Environmental groups and concerned well owners in southeast Minnesota hope a lawsuit against the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Department of Agriculture will open up the rulemaking process for manure and commercial fertilizer.