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An Iowa Town Spent $800,000 On a New Well. It Pumps Undrinkable Water.

PRINCETON, Iowaโ€”From the beginning, the new well was a headache. Late in 2022, an overly powerful pump caused eight months of costly water main breaks in Princeton, a town of nearly 1,000 residents on the banks of the silty Mississippi River. Installing a smaller motor seemed to

An Iowa Town Spent $800,000 On a New Well. It Pumps Undrinkable Water.
Inside Climate News โ€” 3 June 2026
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PRINCETON, Iowaโ€”From the beginning, the new well was a headache. Late in 2022, an overly powerful pump caused eight months of costly water main breaks in Princeton, a town of nearly 1,000 residents on the banks of the silty Mississippi River. Installing a smaller motor seemed to fix that issue, but revealed a different, all-too-familiar [โ€ฆ]

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