Lift Station Construction and Local Wells

I had a conversation today with the man from the Met Council who is managing the project on Point Douglas and Highway 61 where they are putting in the new lift station "plumbing". It turns out that a few wells in that area have gone dry, and the Met Council is making sure that city water is available to those residents.

As a result of this problem, which we thought might happen when they were planning the project two years ago, the Met Council is contracting with Braun Intertek to do a study that will monitor the wells in that area. They have put in some monitoring wells to help with this assessment and hope to have the report done by the end of August.

It turns out that there isn't real good information on what wells there are in the area, how deep they are, and so on. Some of these wells are quite shallow, which makes it even more important that we monitor run-off in the Highwood area, and that people there with septic systems make sure those systems are operating properly.

Anyway, as soon as we hear about the study results, we'll let people know.