Door County Holds Off On Peninsula Pride Farmers Well Water Program

Door County officials decided not to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Peninsula Pride Farmers group about providing water to Southern Door residents whose wells are tainted with e-coli because Door County operates differently from Kewaunee County, which did sign the MOU. “It’s too rushed, too fast. We have to discuss it in front of our committees,” said Dale Konkol, conservationist with the Door County Soil and Water Conservation Department at the Sept. 15 meeting of the Land Conservation Committee. The Peninsula Pride Farms group rolled out its Well Water program on Sept. 7, offering to provide emergency clean water to those whose wells have been contaminated with e.coli, regardless of the source of contamination. The offer was made to all Kewaunee County residents, as well as residents of southern Door County. Konkol said Door County operates differently from Kewaunee County. “We don’t get well test results and contact homeowners. That’s the DNR’s resposniblity,” he said.