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“Nearly a year after a city well was shut down due to PFAS contamination, Stillwater residents will soon see the first official notice from the government of the problem — a delay that’s drawn criticism from former Gov. Arne Carlson.
In a letter to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Carlson called it ‘stunning’ that people weren’t informed sooner.
‘This goes well beyond careless management or an administrative snafu. People’s lives were placed in danger by the deliberate inaction of their own government,’ he wrote in a March 20 email to Health Commissioner Brooke Cunningham.
Carlson asked why the public wasn’t informed as soon as the first well was found to have contaminants, and why there was a delay in closing the well after the problem was found.”