PARTIAL FUNDING FOR MOUND WATER TREATMENT PLANT APPROVED AND CONTINUED WORK ON SECURING FINAL FUNDING
In-Home Treatment Options & Manganese Information:
This information is meant to provide insightful information to help you manage safe, affordable, and healthful drinking water within your household as we will continue to live with the manganese issues within our community as city leadership works to secure funding for the completion of a water treatment plant.
More information regarding Manganese in water can be found at these Minnesota Department of Health web pages:
If you are interested in hiring a laboratory to test your water, a list of accredited laboratories can be found HERE. This testing would be at the requester's expense.
Ongoing Funding Efforts & Information:
March 12, 2024
For fiscal year 2024, the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations accepted requests for Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) items.
It is, according to their webpage, an important way in which Senators can advocate for programs critical to the nation, their constituents, and their states.
These items are those that meet specific criteria and are often those that promote economic development, education, health care initiatives, and other worthy investments in communities across the country.
The City of Mound submitted a request for funding to help fund the construction of a new Water Treatment Plant. The City of Mound was notified that it has been allocated $959,752 in CDS funds!
The City is grateful for its strong relationships with its state and federal representatives and the ongoing partnership approach as the pursuit continues to secure all funds necessary to complete this project
A special thank you to U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Senator Tina Smith, and U.S. Representative Dean Phillips for advocating on behalf of the City of Mound to secure this important funding.
To date, the City of Mound has secured $10.3 million (in 2023) in state funding for the project. With the additional CDS funds, the City has been allocated roughly $11.3 million (of $36 million) for the project.
2023:
In 2023, the City of Mound received $10.3M (State Funding) of the total $36M estimated project cost for a new water treatment plant. This first tranche of funding will allow us to get moving on the full project design and some of the early-phase work and set the stage for future requests as we work to finish the project over the next multiple years.
More work is being done at the local and state level as it relates to securing more funding to get the project across the finish line – but this first round of funding was a big step and a demonstration of commitment to clean water by the State legislature.
Please remember to thank our MN Senator and Representative for their hard work on our behalf. We are grateful for their continued advocacy and support!
March 3, 2023:
The City Council and Staff continue to actively work to resolve the elevated manganese issues identified in our water supply. The City Engineers at Bolton and Menk have re-run the numbers for the proposed Water Treatment plant and due to inflation, supply chains, and market trends; the total cost is now at $36.4 million – making this project even more challenging for the City to fund. We are actively working with Senator Kelly Morrison and Representative Andrew Myers to continue pursuing State funding for this crucial project. Both Morrison and Myers are supportive of Mound’s need for a water treatment plant to remove the manganese from the water.