Construction will begin next week on a new sewer system to serve the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Reservation and Mille Lacs County in Minnesota, The St. Cloud Times reports.
The tribe recently completed a wastewater treatment center on its land. The $17 million new sewer system will be connected to it.
Mille Lacs Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin said the system, a partnership of tribal, local, state and federal agencies, could help relations with Mille Lacs County, which has opposed the tribe on several fronts. The county's objection to a federal permit for the system delayed construction for nearly a year.
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(The St. Cloud Times 7/2)
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Sewer system to serve Mille Lacs Reservation
Friday, July 2, 2004
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