All Projects

Review existing water utility ordinance, assess the need for additional controls and update the ordinance language and compose and distribute Wellhead Protection Newsletter for property owners within the DWSMA

Manage storage tanks, provide hazardous waste education to hazardous waste generators and conduct wellhead plan evaluation and submit WHP Program Evaluation form to MDH

Review integrity of contaminant sources in the DWSMA; public education

Develop content and maps, update City's website with an interactive GIS story map regarding abandoned and unsealed wells, well management, turf management, hazardous waste and Wellhead Protection Plan; Notify storage tank owners within the DWSMA importanc

Inventory wells and PCSI

Purchase and install key cards on well houses for security. Educated public by providing DWSMA and wellhead protection information in City Update newsletter.

Upgrade pump controls for current municipal wells and add an alarm system. Install panels and alarm.

Update City's PCSI and website to promote water conservation. Conduct wellhead plan evaluation and submit WHP Program Evaluation form to MDH.

Seal well 206330

Develop, print and send public education information to well owners and hazardous waste generator owners. Conduct wellhead plan evaluation and submit WHP Program Evaluation form to MDH

Inspect and seal well, inform tank owners of their role to protect aquifer and best management practices for tank management and use multiple forms of media to educate public on Wellhead Protection and protecting groundwater.

Install protective fence barrier around wells.

Construct a new well and seal old well

Seal 6 unused monitoring wells in DWSMA; unique well #s 179000, 178993, 178992, 178991, 178990, 467594

Seal two unused wells on private property within the DWSMA.

Install pressure transducer and telemetric system for city observation well, Complete well field inventory and transducer calibration at each city well and coordinate with City and SCADA integrator to access water level data for city wells.

Construct an observation well into the Jordan Aquifer to evaluate and monitor sustainability of the City's water supply wells.

Remove and replace clay pipe sanitary sewer within 200' of an active municipal well.

Clean up well site and seal private well in DWSMA; Assist businesses and residences with water use reduction and provide educational information on water use and conservation on website.

Install a back up generator and security lights for well house.

Purchase and install transducer (wells #1 and #3) with security cameras and equipment.

Seal an unused irrigation well, unique well number 227854 and encourage, incentivize and educate 11 producers in Holland, North Holland and Verdi DWSMA's $500 per producer

Seal unused well. Relocate and cover electrical conductor lines around the well.

Seal public well #1

Conduct pilot test to utilize biological removal of Nitrates on the ranney well water.

Old Municipal well survey, provide information to the public about wellhead protection and conduct private well survey

Construct a new well and feeder line to serve 12 units.

Connect to Red Rock Rural Water System and seal well 213441

Provide second half of annual rent payment to landowner for City to implement nitrogen BMPs on field, harvest the cereal rye and kernza already planted in the wellhead protection area and prepare fields and plant kernza in remaining 90 acres of wellhead p

Drill out wood and cement from well, video and then remove obstruction in well and seal well 272031.

Drill out wood and cement from well, video well and then remove obstruction in well and seal well 272031

Remove existing underground fuel tank and replace it with an updated above ground tank.

Seal unused well on private property within the DWSMA

Provide incentives to encourage producers of agricultural land within the DWSMA to implement soil health and nitrogen reducing activities.

Clear well so a borehole geophysical survey can be conducted on Well #2.

Remove old equipment, supply and install new communications equipment between water tower and wells, test and train City staff

Minnesota Department of Health has been collaborating with cities and other community water suppliers since 1993 to develop and implement source water protection plans.  Support from the Clean Water Legacy expands and accelerates the number of water suppliers that can be assisted each year in undertaking protection planning and implementation activities.