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Water Quality Research Department

The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Water Quality Research Department offers technical assistance and analytical services through two USEPA resource protection programs and the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Research Lab (MCTRL).

 

General Assistance Program (GAP)

Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the GAP contract provides the following services: 

Fish tissue analysis for mercury contamination

Preparation of (6) subsistence fish consumption guides by reservation and by lake

Technical assistance for resource contamination issues, water quality management, quality assurance plan development, drinking water analysis, and surface water analysis

Research and advocacy for Tribal health, environmental quality and funding issues

 

Underground Storage Tank/Leaking Underground Storage Tank (UST/LUST)

Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the UST/LUST contracts provide for the following:

Technical coordination to Tribal staff regarding removal and installation of tribally owned underground storage tanks

Technical coordination for closure of on-reservation leaking underground storage tanks

Inspection of on-reservation underground storage tanks and leaking underground storage tanks

 

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Research Lab

Funded by fees for services, the Research Lab performs the following for reservations, private sector businesses and individuals

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) drinking water analyses.  The Research Lab is federally certified.

Surface water analysis

Fish tissue contaminant analysis

For more information contact:

John Persell
326 First St. NE
P.O. Box 217
Cass Lake, MN  56633

(218) 335-6303

email: mctwq@paulbunyan.net

 

 

 

          

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