LINO LAKES – Lino Lakes extended its watering ban to try to keep its water supply safer from high levels of manganese.
Earlier this year, the city announced state testing had found higher levels of manganese in one of the city’s four main wells. Manganese is a mineral already in water supplies and even in baby formula, but the amount of manganese in the water was higher than state guidelines allow.
Since then, as the city studies ways to mitigate, it’s used water primarily from the other three wells.
Now, with summer temperatures here, the city has extended its outdoor watering ban to start four hours earlier. No one can water their lawn from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. to try to keep the demand on the three wells lower.
City leaders will reevaluate as the summer goes on.
