Alycia Overbo

If you're a private well owner, depending on the state of your well, there may be seasonal variations in quantity and quality. And that's why we do recommend that private well owners test their water periodically to make sure its safety is being maintained. Private well owners may also have softeners. Some private well owners may have iron filters or arsenic treatment.

If you're a private well owner, depending on the state of your well, there may be seasonal variations in quantity and quality. And that's why we do recommend that private well owners test their water periodically to make sure its safety is being maintained. Private well owners may also have softeners. Some private well owners may have iron filters or arsenic treatment.

So just making sure if they do have some treatment that they're maintaining it regularly.

So just making sure if they do have some treatment that they're maintaining it regularly.

Yeah, so there's no safe level of lead and that includes drinking water too. Lead in paint and lead dust is still the biggest exposure route Minnesotans have to lead. So that comes from those older homes that may still have lead paint in them. But lead from drinking water is still a concern in Minnesota.

Yeah, so there's no safe level of lead and that includes drinking water too. Lead in paint and lead dust is still the biggest exposure route Minnesotans have to lead. So that comes from those older homes that may still have lead paint in them. But lead from drinking water is still a concern in Minnesota.

We've just been working to put $240 million that's being invested into getting lead out of drinking water, trying to get those lead service lines out and to make sure that that's done in an equitable way so that people who are exposed to lead from those service lines It gets out as quickly as possible.

We've just been working to put $240 million that's being invested into getting lead out of drinking water, trying to get those lead service lines out and to make sure that that's done in an equitable way so that people who are exposed to lead from those service lines It gets out as quickly as possible.

We're kind of having a goal to get that out within 10 years, which we're seeing also reflected in the lead and copper rule improvements, which is a nationwide effort that's also been proposed to try and get lead out nationwide in 10 years from those service lines. Here in Minnesota, we also work with schools and child cares so that they can test for lead.

We're kind of having a goal to get that out within 10 years, which we're seeing also reflected in the lead and copper rule improvements, which is a nationwide effort that's also been proposed to try and get lead out nationwide in 10 years from those service lines. Here in Minnesota, we also work with schools and child cares so that they can test for lead.

We run a lead testing program for them using the water infrastructure improvements for the nation's funding. But there's grants going out to schools and child cares to get lead out when they found it to make sure that when it's found, they're able to actually address it and not just go, we found it, what do we do? So we want to make sure that they can do something about it as well.

We run a lead testing program for them using the water infrastructure improvements for the nation's funding. But there's grants going out to schools and child cares to get lead out when they found it to make sure that when it's found, they're able to actually address it and not just go, we found it, what do we do? So we want to make sure that they can do something about it as well.

So we're working pretty hard on lead in drinking water in Minnesota.

So we're working pretty hard on lead in drinking water in Minnesota.

Yep. So let's see. How did I get involved in water? So I would say I got involved in water. kind of professionally. When I was in graduate school, I went to graduate school at the University of Maine in Orono, and I studied radiation in water.

Yep. So let's see. How did I get involved in water? So I would say I got involved in water. kind of professionally. When I was in graduate school, I went to graduate school at the University of Maine in Orono, and I studied radiation in water.

So I studied lots of different types of environmental radiation, but I actually studied radon in drinking water and radium, which is pretty common out in Maine. And so when I moved to Minnesota, I was teaching for a while,

So I studied lots of different types of environmental radiation, but I actually studied radon in drinking water and radium, which is pretty common out in Maine. And so when I moved to Minnesota, I was teaching for a while,

But my first job at the state of Minnesota was working on the radionuclides rule for drinking water because Minnesota also has some aquifers where there's naturally occurring radioactive materials. So working with water systems who have to take that mineral out before it gets to consumers. So that's how I got interested in water and I've stayed in that field.

But my first job at the state of Minnesota was working on the radionuclides rule for drinking water because Minnesota also has some aquifers where there's naturally occurring radioactive materials. So working with water systems who have to take that mineral out before it gets to consumers. So that's how I got interested in water and I've stayed in that field.