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A14 • STAR TRIBUNE MONDAY, DECEMB•ER,26, 2005 Water supply can't meet tl3~st €or new industry Cargill plant fumed down for latlc of water. ~ - Drilled well 20 7.inro3n ~ ~ ; ~`` miles east of Redwaod !~ city to pipe in i.pcn ~ water. ~ -~~, n-=°"a-- Worthington. ~ :^: , 1 Ninrray ~ Cottoawrw Turned down _.~ ii 2 dozen -- ~ - ---.:.:._ 1-_ projects in past Rock ~obies 7acksoia 25 years for lack of water. Source: Minnesota Department of IVatiual.Resources :only in small, isolated aquifers. Groundwater generally not available. ~- ~_ - Ma ii- ,. ~ Soybean processor able ~:1 to proceed by ~_ bringing ° waterfrom Heron lake 10 miles away- Stan Tnbune ~ WATER FROM A1Z manufacturing. Healy, the head of the L~- " Because the .glaciers didn't coin-Pipestone system that p~ reach.. far to' the southwest, ' vides water to all or parts of ni..< that region. was left: with much southwestern Minnesota coon smaller sand and gravel depos- : ties, said that utility is "getting its that formed underground just barely today," approving fi water basinsr or aquifers. Low- .new hookups. It pumps 13 billior er=than-average rainfall 'and :gallons of water each year Eton higher temperatures have ag- three sets of underground aq~ grava~ed the problem fens, distribu#ing treated drir ,Minnesota's western arid- re- ing watts tlu~ough 3,400. miles 01 gi®n extends all the way to the underground .pipelines to 3,Onr Canadian border, but the geolog- farms :.and rural homeowne ical survey's Cowdery said the and more than two dozen coin southwestern corner faces the munities.:. ° worst- "stress situation." A com- Healy said he has told 10 phcatingfactor is the state's Pali- 12 industrial applicants ov cy discouraging transfer of water the past -six years -three u~ from;onemajor.basin,such as the the .past.year -that the. sys- Mississippi River watershed, to tem cannot fully meet tl? :v anathei: That limrits southwest- - ter.needs. He said Minn. x ern counties to water from the based.Cagill equested l mil- Missouri Riverbasin. lion gallons of water each day Hydrogeologists ..from. the but he could offer.only 00,OG Minnesota Department of Nat- to 200,004 gallons. oral Resources (DNR) closely Don Habcht, general man- monitor the. rates. at which wa- ages of Worthington's watP* ter is pumped-from area wells utilities,. said he's turned awa to ensiu-e that aquifers caij re= about two dozen projects ovc_ chazge. They run tests on with- the past 25 years. drawal rates before approving -Water got so tight in Ma proposed plants. shall that its public utilities sy~ JayFrischman, a DNR hydros tem drilled a well field 20 miles geologist, describes himself as to the east and plans to pipe in "the grim reaper" who delivers 700,000 gallons of water eac bad news to local communities year. Marshall is home to; tb trying to add industry. Minnesota Corn' Processors He recailed,aduising manag- :plant avVned'byArcherDaniels ers of a farm er-owned soybean : :Midland = a pliant that make _ processing- plant 'under con- corn sweeteners and 40 millio struction in Brewster in 2003 gallons of ethanol each year, that the wells they planned to and that .,.bought 469 millio^ . use would not provide along- , gallons of water. supplied b' term water source. the city and Lincoln-Pipeston_ The. owners escaped `what last yeaz, said Brad Roos, gener- couldhave been a really big bind," al manager of Marshall's publi - hesaid, because neighboring Her- utilities system. on Lake liad drilled a highly pro- ductivewellforitsyet-to-be-built Star Tribune staff writerRobertF i ethanol plant.. Constructing 10 contributed to this report. Greg Goroon m11eS Of pipeline. t0 HerOll Lake, is a correspondent in the Star Tribune _ the soybeanplantboughtenough washingtonBureau. water to .expand into biodiesel