Clean Water:
Funding from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment is starting to flow to local water quality projects. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) uses a portion of the Clean Water Fund for grants to cities, counties, watershed groups and others to work on water quality problems.
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