Wisconsin city spends $200,000 a year, drills deeper wells to keep farm nitrates out of tap water
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Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin protects 16,000 residents by spending $200,000 annually on water treatment and accessing deeper, cleaner aquifers to keep nitrates below the federal limit of 10 parts per million, after detecting concerning levels in a city well in 1997.
While essential for the safety of the people who live and work there to have clean water, digging deeper is a bandaid, not a long-term solution for dealing with agricultural pollution.
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