# Empire Township *Township in Dakota County, Minnesota.* Empire Township is a township in southern Dakota County, [[Minnesota]]. The record assembled for this wiki names it in one at-issue item. That item concerns the regional wastewater plant serving the township and its neighbours, not any act of the township government.[^1] The item rests on a single self-published Metropolitan Council source. The record carries no primary document, no township enactment, and no court or agency finding naming Empire Township.[^1] ## Where Empire Township is one of the southern Dakota County communities served by the Metropolitan Council's [[Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant]], according to the at-issue item. The item lists the communities served as [[Apple Valley]], [[Elko New Market]], Empire Township, [[Farmington]], [[Rosemount]] and part of [[Lakeville]].[^1] ## In the at-issue record At-issue item AI-Dakota-070 in the Dakota package states that the Empire plant was built in 1979, has since been doubled, and carries 24 million gallons a day for the six communities listed above.[^1] The item also states that Dakota County left the regional transit board but remained in the regional sewer system.[^1] The only source the item cites is the Metropolitan Council's own website, which is graded self-published. The record does not include a Metropolitan Council document or an audit establishing the 1979 date, the expansion, or the daily volume.[^1] The Legislature's [[Metropolitan Governance Task Force]] issued its final report on February 1, 2024.[^2] The record assembled here does not show whether that report addresses the Empire plant or the communities it serves.[^2] ## In the Minnesota record ### Where - The Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant serves Empire Township, Apple Valley, Elko New Market, Farmington, Rosemount and part of Lakeville, according to the at-issue item. The item rests on one self-published source.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki, Dakota package, at-issue item AI-Dakota-070, *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix* (2026-09-02) — states the 1979 construction, the doubling, the 24-million-gallon-per-day volume, the communities served, and the county's exit from the transit board. The item's one source is self-published (metrocouncil.org). The only URL the item attaches is its anchor, The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025), which does not itself establish the plant figures. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^2]: Minnesota Legislature, Metropolitan Governance Task Force, *Final Report* (February 1, 2024) — legislative commission report; establishes the report and its date. https://www.lcc.mn.gov/mgtf/report/Final-MGTF-Report