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<br />lf~u.; <br /> <br />fj.,.--~;-& s---- <br />i)L}1/1~1Z--c~- ____ _ . <br /> <br /> <br />Wen water often <br />contaminated, <br />but few know it <br /> <br />BY DENNIS LIEN <br />Pioneer Press <br /> <br />Don Pereira wishes he didn't have to give his well <br />water any thought. Pulled from an aquifer deep <br />below his southern Cottage Grove home, it looks <br />good and tastes great. <br />But Pereira, his wife and their young son aren't <br />drinkiug any of it. When he bought his home iu 1997, <br />the well had a marginally high level of nitrate, a nat- <br />urally occurriug nutrient that can cause health prob- <br />lems for inf\illts. Now, it's twice as high and climbiug. <br />"It has kept rising every lime I had It checked," <br />said Pereira, who buys every bit of water his family <br />consumes. <br />For all his problems, Pereira has an advantage over <br />many of the other 100,000 residential well owners iu <br />the Twin Cities area: Much of their water is dirty and <br />they don't know it, public health officials say. <br />From Arden Hills to Lake Ehno to Hastiugs, the <br />spotlight in recent years has been on chemicals in <br />private wells. About a half-dozen large east metro <br />areas have identified groundwater pollution, prompt- <br />ing people with wells there to talce more caution with <br /> <br />WELL WATER, 12A <br /> <br /> <br />4' '~II!~]]~IIIJI!I]llIJIIII' <br /> <br />iNDEX <br />Bulle~1"in Board <br />Crosi.word <br /> <br />Dear Abby 14E Obituarie: <br />58 Great Outdoors 1 f . Opinion <br />14E Movie Cloa::k 12'G~1 Travel <br />