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By Seattle Times  Feb. 14--Environmental groups are challenging new state stormwater regulations, saying they won't do enough to keep polluted runoff from flowing into the state's rivers, lakes and Puget Sound.
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By Chris Mazzolini, Star-News, Wilmington, N.C.  May 30--Wilmington and New Hanover County officials say they have made  great strides to repair the area's troubled sewer system. Now they hope the  Environmental Protection Agency will agree.
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By Mahalia Asanaenyi, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 9--The City of Gretna has signed on to a controversial proposal to build up to 29 dams to control storm water runoff and flooding in the Omaha metropolitan area.
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By Dahleen Glanton, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--ATLANTA -- North and South Carolina are fighting over a river.  In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniel's  whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers.
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The Bush administration made it harder Tuesday for non-permanent streams and nearby wetlands to be protected under the federal Clean Water Act.
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By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 16--Sewage treatment plants in Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls and Hayden are facing some of the strictest water quality standards in the nation under new requirements proposed Thursday by the federal government.
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By DAVE PHILIPPS THE GAZETTE  This spring Colorado Springs will wrestle with an issue dozens of cities have already tackled: how to strike a balance between letting the public visit city-owned reservoirs and protecting drinking water.
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By JULIAN WALKER  A developer will be allowed to destroy some wetlands and streams in Chesterfield County to make way for a road extension to a planned mixed-use development.  The decision came yesterday from the State Water Control Board, which reversed a previous decision.
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chesapeake  Deadline to apply for city water ends today  Property owners trying to tap into the city water and sewer system have until the end of business today to submit petitions with the Public Utilities Department.
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By KERRY CAVANAUGH\\ Staff Writer  Frustrated that a Sunland-Tujunga developer has skirted building regulations with few penalties, City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel said Monday she wants to give municipal agencies more power to stop and punish rulebreakers.
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By Shelley Byrne, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Sep. 25--The rain is over, but the trouble is just beginning for some of those who live near creeks and rivers.
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By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Feb. 12--Los Osos developer Jeff Edwards will not get his wish to join a key county water panel as an environmentalist, but he could reapply in coming weeks if the committee creates a new slot for builders.
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By JULIAN WALKER  The State Water Control Board has another lawsuit on its hands related to a proposed 165-acre mixed-use development in Chesterfield County.
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By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Jun. 8--Staff and members of the Land Use Regulation Commission are bracing for a marathon stretch of public hearings and workshops on some of the most complex and controversial issues to ever come before the regulatory agency.
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By Darrin Youker, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Mar. 11--Since 1982, residents in Bally have had problems with contamination in their municipal water supply.  But in a few months, the federal Environmental Protection Agency finally expects to remedy the situation.
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By Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Sep. 20--CHARLOTTE -- York County residents who oppose a plan from two North Carolina cities to draw water from the Catawba River pleaded their case to N.C. officials Tuesday during the last public hearing on the proposal.
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Property owners faced off against conservationists at a legislative hearing to reconsider new rules that restrict development near shorelines where sandpipers, plovers and other migrating birds feed and rest.