Delta Debris the Bane of Marine Unit: Sheriff's Deputies Await County OK of Grant That Will Pay for Another Cleanup of Boats, Junk Discarded in Waterways
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By Rowena Coetsee, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jan. 31--Expecting to receive an infusion of money soon, Contra Costa sheriff's deputies are preparing for yet another round of pulling abandoned boats out of the Delta.
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By Matt Bewley, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun.
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By Rowena Coetsee, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 12--EAST COUNTY -- Old age has cost two Delta communities their fireboat, but fire district officials say the replacement they have in mind will compensate for those losses.
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By Jeff Wilkinson, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Sep. 17--Volunteers hope creating city park will end need for annual cleanup   Volunteers plucked more than 2,000 cans and bottles from a 200-yard stretch of the Saluda River around Riverbanks Zoo on Saturday -- mostly beer containers.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Feb. 17--The Destin Fire Control District hopes that after Tuesday's City Council meeting, their boat will have a new slip to call home.
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By Dusty Ricketts, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Sep. 10--NAVARRE BEACH -- Dredging is expected to resume on the troubled beach restoration project late next week.
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By Andrew Gant, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun. 11--Abandoned boats left over from storms on the Emerald Coast are finally starting to move again -- into the junkyards.   Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Lt.
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By Heather Civil, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb. 16--SANTA ROSA BEACH -- Regional Utilities is upgrading a portion of its water system to meet increasing demand in South Walton County.
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By F.A. Krift, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 23--A boat sits in the mud at Jim Morris's marina on Toledo Bend Reservoir. The way Morris sees it, his business sinks into the muck right along with it, and he blames his suffering on a lack of rain and the Sabine River Authority.
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Sep. 13--After lobbying by South Florida's powerful boating industry, the Broward County Environmental Protection Department has revised a proposed manatee-protection plan to allow 5,000 new boat slips in southern Broward County.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 20--A coastal community can never have too many qualified lifesavers on the beach.
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By Craig Tenbroeck, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.
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By Dana Wilson, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 8--LEWIS CENTER, Ohio -- The Delaware County Republican Party chose Walter "Magnum" Davis, a State Highway Patrol sergeant, as the county's next sheriff last night.
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By Al Jones, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 27--GULFPORT -- The 59th annual Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo begins Saturday at the Harrison County Fairgrounds for the second straight year.
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 13--GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors have decided to cast a new eye on beach vendors, once a familiar site from Biloxi to Pass Christian before vanishing with Hurricane Katrina.
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By Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 16----
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By Brent Champaco, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 15--Lucinda Wingard says she's noticed the toll humans are taking on the Crescent Valley Watershed of Gig Harbor.   She lives in the area that scientists consider one of the most biologically diverse in Pierce County.