The city of Hastings will get help from the state of Minnesota’s settlement with 3M to pay to treat “forever chemicals” in its drinking water supply.
All six of the city’s wells contain PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Five of the wells have levels above new, enforceable federal limits set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
However, until now, Hastings wasn’t eligible for funding from the state’s 2018 legal settlement with 3M over PFAS pollution in the east Twin Cities metro, because state officials hadn’t directly linked its contamination to chemicals manufactured by 3M. That $850 million settlement has helped several other communities pay for treatment systems to remove PFAS…