The City of Minneapolis gets its drinking water soley from the Mississippi
River. Minneapolis also sells about a quarter of its water to suburbs,
including Golden Valley. The inlets for the system are in Fridley.
St Paul gets its water from a combination of lakes in the northern suburbs
and the Mississippi River. There has been under discussion a connection
between the two systems so St Paul could feed water to Minneapolis in case
of a river contamination or either system could feed the other if there was
a cryptosporidium infestation or such but I lost track of this discussion
several years ago. Perhaps someone from the City could give an update? The
last I remember was that the interconnection would cost like $20 million so
it had never been done.
Carol Becker
Longfellow
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Bassett Creek/The Jordan Aquifer & The MPRB
> In a message dated 12/5/2000 12:38:23 PM Central Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes in part, regarding the use of Jordan Aquifer
> groundwater for once-through cooling by General Mills before dumping into
> surface water of Basset Creek:
>
> << The City of Golden Valley has entered the lawsuit on the side of
General
> Mills as an intervener, and has filed an amicus brief in the lawsuit.
Golden
> Valley does not happen to get its municipal water from the aquifer, but
> instead is hooked into the Mpls river water system. >>
>
> Don't the MN DNR and cities relying on the Mississippi River for potable
> municipal water supplies have a major interest, from a contingency
planning
> perspective, on maintaining adequate, clean groundwater in event of a
major
> supply disruption with Mississippi River water? After all, there are not
> only other waste treatment systems upstream along the river, but also
several
> power plants, including the nuclear facilities in Montecello which use
river
> water for cooling purposes. What would Minneapolis and Golden Valley do
if
> the Mississippi were to incur significant contamination over an extended
> period? Just curious.
>
> M. Hohmann
> 13th Ward
>
