Salted land council holds awareness event at Capitol
A Salted Land & Water Day, billed as the first biannual, will be held Friday at the North Dakota State Capitol.
The event occurs in the Great Hall from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and is sponsored by the Salt Contaminated Land and Water Council, founded by Donny Nelson and coordinated by Fintan Dooley.
Kerry Sublette of the University of Tulsa, Okla., who for 30 years has been a leading researcher in the reclamation of brine spilled land, will be the council’s guest.
With tongue in cheek, the council invites stewardship activists to Adopt a Disaster Zone, specifically a brine pond in Bottineau, Renville, Ward or another county. North Dakota has more than the 2,600 forgotten brine ponds dispersed across 17 counties, according to the council.
The Salted Lands Council also invites voters to urge legislators to fund the search for the abandoned pits and the remediation work begun by Lynn Helms, director of the state Oil and Gas Division.