Very good news for the City of Hastings! 3M will now need to cover some of the costs to treat Hastings' drinking water. "They will get about $14.5 million from the 3M settlement, but it falls short of the $70 million needed to build three new treatment plants." 1/2 www.mprnews.org/story/2024/1...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced it's linked PFAS contamination in one of Hastings’ wells to 3M's Cottage Grove facility. City officials say the money will help, but won’t cover the fu...
This was an expected result as most east Twin Cities metro communities have elevated PFAS concentrations in their groundwater. The issue with Hastings is that the MPCA was having difficulty definitively proving that the PFAS were due to waste from 3M. That connection has now been established. 2/2