Lake Elmo is already struggling to provide enough clean water to its 11,000 residents, and some City Council members at a Nov. 14 workshop session were divided over support for a new, $86 million ...

DNR offers to double Lake Elmo's legal water supply. City Council will consider the proposed permit at a closed-session meeting Jan. 16. By Matt McKinney. January 14, 2024 at 2:30PM.

The other players at the table — Lake Elmo’s neighbors — have received tens of millions of dollars from 3M, which manufactured the pollutant found in the cities’ drinking water.

A well in Cimarron Mobile Home Park was identified last week to contain”forever chemicals,” putting more pressure on Lake Elmo’s already strained water appropriation limits.

LAKE ELMO, Minn. (WCCO)-- Concerns over chemicals in the water is forcing a Twin Cities town to take one of its wells and towers offline. People living in Lake Elmo got an alert Tuesday of high ...

Lake Elmo is the fastest-growing city in the state — and the clean water supply can’t keep up. The city in the east metro says it’s been using a contaminated well to supplement the water ...

Lake Elmo is a community that's been dealing with PFAS for years. They are dangerous and potentially cancer-causing chemicals once created by 3M, that have found their way into drinking water.