Unsafe nitrate levels were found during free well water tests at Farmfest in southwest Minnesota last month. Margaret Wagner with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture says more than 100 private wells were tested over the three-day event. “Within that, six of those private well samples exceeded the federal health standard of 10 milligrams per liter, […]
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