Governor Mark Dayton’s town hall meetings on water quality continue this week with sessions tonight (Tues 630-830pm) in Crookston and tomorrow in Saint Cloud. The state’s new buffer law, designed to reduce runoff from farm fields into rivers and lakes, was a topic of discussion at earlier meetings in southern Minnesota. State Pollution Control Agency Commissioner John Linc Stine says, “We want to make sure that the steps that are taken are done in a way that agriculture producers, farmers and the business community… can embrace and can move forward.”
Water quality town hall meetings continue next week in Ely and Bemidji. They wrap up in the Twin Cities in late September and early October. Governor Dayton has set the goal of improving Minnesota’s water quality 25 percent by 2025.