Why is the City of Rochester doing an AUAR?
The City of Rochester has initiated a Water Quality Protection Project to extend sanitary sewer and water to homes with failing and substandard septic systems in areas with near-surface groundwater. In Marion Township, the area that can be served by the trunk sewer extensions is part of Sewer Service Area 16. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has included the completion of an AUAR as a special condition of the City’s permit to construct and operate the new collection system.
