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Saratoga Street south of Minnesota Highway 23 in Marshall is set to be part of at MnDOT detour later this summer during resurfacing work on Highway 59. On Tuesday, Marshall City Council members approved a detour agreement, but they also voiced concerns about routing a detour near a residential neighborhood
MARSHALL Â A planned construction detour on Saratoga Street later this summer divided members of the Marshall City Council on Tuesday.
While the council narrowly approved a detour agreement with the Minnesota Department of Transportation during planned construction on U.S. Highway 59, some members said they had serious concerns about the safety of the route.
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Marshall Municpal Utilities Water Operations Manager Jeff Larson explains the pipelines and equipment that will allow Marshallâs city water plant to pre-soften the water.
MARSHALL It was a big undertaking, but a project to add water softening equipment to Marshall’s municipal water treatment plant is now operational.
Over the next few weeks, Marshall Municipal Utilities staff will be working on taking city water from 35 grains of hardness down to about eight or nine grains, MMU Water Operations Manager Jeff Larson said.
“We are dialing the hardness down as we speak,” Larson said the process should happen over the next few weeks. Larson said MMU is targeting June 1 as the day when Marshall residents can reset their water softeners. “We didn’t want to have people have to adjust their softeners multiple times.”