On Wednesday, Oct. 4, Senator Bill Weber (R-Luverne) joined members of the Minnesota Senate Capital Investment Committee and local officials to tour 15 infrastructure and development projects throughout Senate District 21. The group stopped at the local projects as part of the Committee’s Southwest Tour of regional projects seeking state bonding.
Senator Weber released the following statement:
“As we can see from the stops made as well as other requests that have been made by other communities in the district, our infrastructure is aging and the solutions that are presented by MPCA and other state agencies are expensive.
“We must make sure that good science is applied, and the most efficient methods are used to handle our water and wastewater needs as well as our road system. I have long encouraged our higher education people at the University of Minnesota, a land grant college, that one of the greatest areas of community benefit is extensive research on new methods of treatment for water and wastewater supplies.
“Having requirements for wastewater that exceed the levels of a community’s water source is both frustrating and wasteful of resources. One of the resources of which there seems to be the greatest shortage is common sense!”
During the bonding tour of Senate District 21, the Committee visited the following projects:
- Lincoln Pipestone Rural Water – North Water Source Development
- Slayton – 34th St. Reconstruction
- Slayton – Operation Prairie Venture
- Slayton – Murray Co. Highway Bldg.
- Ruthton – Water Tower and Distribution System
- Fulda – Infrastructure Improvement Project
- Minnesota West Community and Technical College Worthington – Nursing and Student Services Renovation
- Wilder – Sewer Project
- Windom – Red Leaf Court Storm Sewer
- Minnesota Historical Society – Jeffers Petroglyphs
- Bingham Lake – 3rd Ave. Storm Sewer
- Mountain Lake – Street and Infrastructure Improvement
- Butterfield – Infrastructure Project
- Trimont – Infrastructure Project
- Alpha – Infrastructure Project