Big trouble in Little Canada: Water bills at manufactured home park skyrocket after unpermitted work

By: Cole Hanson

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: April 23, 2026

Words: 1,837

Last Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago

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Last winter, Courtney McDonough did what North Star Estates told her to do.

Like most residents of this Little Canada manufactured home park, she ran her faucets at a slight drip through the cold months to keep her pipes from freezing. So when her community manager called in December to tell her meter was reading “a gallon per minute,” she assumed it was the faucets.

She turned them down to the limits of what …

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