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By Erin Quinn, Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas  Feb. 28--The McLennan County Water Conservation District is on its way to  becoming a reality, despite the fact that it started as an idea no one liked.    Public forums in Hewitt and Bellmead showed little support at first.
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By EVADNA BARTLETT  WINFIELD - Project planning to extend water to almost 60 families on Jim and Bee ridges above Buffalo is "right on track," an engineer told Putnam County commissioners.
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By Brooke Bryant, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 15--Orinda is urging the East Bay Municipal Utility District to reconsider plans to overhaul its regional water system.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 14--The trial to keep some 200 irrigation wells operational has started in the Weld County Courthouse.
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By Russell Clemings, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  May 27--Eleven years after it was proposed, the first big development across the San Joaquin River north of Fresno now needs only a July vote of approval from the Madera County Board of Supervisors.
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By BARBARA WILLIAMS, STAFF WRITER  WEST MILFORD  The developer of a proposed 288-unit town-house project has asked to monitor 39 homeowners' wells to see if there is enough water for the development.  K.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 2--ROCKY FORD -- Memories of the past and visions of the future could be found in questions Thursday surrounding a "Super Ditch" proposed by the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District.
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By Adam C. Hartmann, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Feb. 7--Two county committees on school district organization may need  more time before making a recommendation that could change the future of the  Yucaipa-Calimesa and Beaumont school districts.
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Turkey, deer and songbirds abound in a pastoral setting in Roanoke County, but under the surface lies the volatile legacy of an old landfill: explosive gases and contaminated fluids.  The mixture will require daily maintenance for decades and cost taxpayers millions, officials say.
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By Jeff Ayres, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb. 23--CRESTVIEW -- The Yellow River Reservoir Committee and the Northwest Florida Water Management District have different ideas on how to ensure a plentiful future water supply in Okaloosa County.
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By MIKE HARTRANFT Rio Rancho " Journal Editor  The great Sandoval County quest for water is under way. As you've read in today's Sunday Rio Rancho Journal, the county is joining forces with Arizona developer Recorp Partners Inc. to find a source of water in the Rio Puerco basin.
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By Eric Ferreri, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 9--DURHAM -- Durham County employs strict guidelines to manage stormwater during development. If the state has its way, the county will be punished for that environmental vigilance, county leaders say.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Sep. 9--Proposed ways of protecting farming in Stanislaus County will go before the public Tuesday and Sept. 18. County officials have drafted revisions to the agricultural element of the general plan.
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By EVADNA BARTLETT  Homeowners in an often-soaked Teays Valley subdivision worry that development of adjacent property will worsen their problems.   They laid out their concerns Tuesday before the Putnam County Commission.
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By Andrew Edwards, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Sep.
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Twenty-three years after a Missoula County sanitarian found arsenic in Milltown&#39;s tap water, the US Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued a final plan for excavating
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By TOM DAYKIN  A $70 million development proposed for the Park East area won approval Monday from a County Board committee, but only after supervisors voted to add a new level to the county's approval process for such proposals.