Expecting new PFAS standards, Hastings officials wonder how they’ll pay for water treatment project
Source: https://www.startribune.com/, July 24, 2023
By: Erin Adler
Hastings officials are puzzling over how to fund a $62 million water treatment project to scrub “forever chemicals” from the city’s water supply — and they’re doing it without the millions of dollars from a 3M Co. settlement that other east metro cities have received.
Three new treatment plants will likely be needed in Hastings when the state and federal government release more stringent drinking water standards for PFAS chemicals in the coming months, city officials said. Read more.