MINNEAPOLIS – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency continues trying to find the source of a “sheen” that appeared on the Mississippi River upstream from the drinking water intakes for both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
It was largely gone by nightfall Tuesday, but officials received another report Wednesday morning from a park in Coon Rapids.
St. Paul immediately shut down its river water intake when the “sheen” was first reported and is using other sources. Minneapolis draws exclusively Mississippi River water and resumed intake Wednesday morning with additional precautions.
Officials say the city’s water was “safe and unaffected.”
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