Bayport officials this week approved plans to build a treatment system for a contaminant that has reached a disturbing level in one of the city's three wells. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will spend $613,392 on a citywide system to treat trichloroethylene, or TCE, said City Administrator Mike McGuire. Construction is expected to begin this fall and be completed by June 2007...

Latest results from the Minnesota Health Department show the TCE level in the contaminated well was 5.8 parts per billion last month, up from 5.6 parts per billion in March. The maximum level allowed in public water supplies is 5 parts per billion.