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State Sen. Jen McEwen introduced a bill to fund the replacement of lead water-service lines in Minnseota. President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan proposes doing the same nationwide.
As city of Duluth, nonprofit test more drinking water for lead, government still tries to fund lead line replacement State Sen. Jen McEwen introduced a bill to fund the replacement of lead water-service lines in Minnseota. President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan proposes doing the same nationwide. Written By: Andee Erickson | × Client services technician Chad Gallagher checks tap water samples Helen Davis dropped off at Pace Analytics on Thursday, May 13, 2021, as Davis completes paperwork. Pace Analytics will check the samples for lead. (Steve Kuchera / ...
Duluth contends with rash of water-main breaks Subzero temperatures caused frost to reach and shift pipes, causing the majority of 25 water main breaks so far in 2021. 11:50 am, Feb. 17, 2021 × A city of Duluth employee uses a backhoe loader with an impactor attachment while digging to a broken water main Monday on the 600 block of North 13th Avenue East. Breaking through frozen ground to reach broken mains can be a long process. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com) The city of Duluth has been contending with a flurry of water-main breaks made worse by several day...
Fox21Online February 11, 2021 DULUTH, Minn.– The below-zero temperatures have kept Duluth city crews busy with water main break after water main break. More than a half-dozen breaks have happened so far in the past week alone. But it’s a job the city is used to handling with about 140 breaks every year. “Frost has driven down and water mains seem to be breaking up pretty commonly with seven in the last few days and so they’re really adding up fast. The past few years overall, the breaks have not been as bad as usual with the slightly warmer winters we’ve been having,” said Eric Sh...
Cleaner natural gas, wind and solar instead of coal. >> economics is the pile driver that is pushing down the coal industry. >> reporter: eric shaffer used to work for the environmental protection agency. now he leads the non-partisan watchdog group the environmental integrity project. can the current white house return the coal industry to its glory days? >> i don't think so. i don't think you can bring it back with campaign promises and killing environmental rules that protect our air and water is going to save work in the coal industry at all. >> reporter: since the president took office, c...