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- Lawmakers work to protect water supplies
- Birds Eye Foods working with Fennville to remove iron from water …
- fficials say keep boiling tap water
- Water supply subject of Wash. meeting

Lawmakers work to protect water supplies
Towanda Daily Review
They seek to update provisions of a state law enacted in 1984 in response to an earlier natural gas drilling boom in Northwest Pennsylvania. Tina Pickett R-110 Towanda sponsored one bill passed 21-5 to mandate testing of a water supply before and after drilling has occurred expand the distance where pollution of a water supply is presumed to be caused by a drilling operation from 1000 feet to 2000 feet and extend the period when a landowner can claim damage to their water supply from six months to two years.

Birds Eye Foods working with Fennville to remove iron from water …
MLive.com
is working with the city on a state grant to remove iron from Fennville’s muncipal water supply and to expand the system to neighboring Clyde and Manlius townships. Fennville Superintendent of Public Works Gary Tuhacek said Thursday the funding would help pay to install six miles of water lines to cover areas with contaminated wells and for an iron-removal system for the city’s water plant. Cost estimates for the projects are still being developed and the improvements could be at least 18 months away he said. The grants are going to be sought from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. “That’s a wonderful step forward but it’s still two years down the road before folks can see clean drinking water” said Kari Craton a Manlius Township homeowner. Birds Eye is also planning a $3.

fficials say keep boiling tap water
San Diego Union Tribune
July 3 2009 DETAILS Escondido’s boil-water order Why: The city found coliform bacteria and E. coli in some of its water supply. When: The boil-water order is still in effect today although the water has tested bacteria-free. What to do: Buy bottled water or boil water for at least one minute at a full rolling boil. Who is affected: 800 homes in the San Pasqual area: east of Bear Valley Parkway and Citrus Avenue south of Mountain View Drive and north and west of San Pasqual and Cloverdale roads.

Water supply subject of Wash. meeting
San Jose Mercury News
It’s your environment. It’s the tribe’s treaty trust resources” he said. Manning and McDonald said they hoped a multi-pronged long-term plan that includes new water storage conservation and habitat improvements can be agreed upon in six to nine months. Members of the new group seemed fairly open to considering all options. Kittitas County Commissioner Mark McClain said he would like to see more storage at the river’s headwaters while Michael Garrity of American Rivers said he wants to make sure the group has a good grasp of demand so that supply needs aren’t overstated. “We will probably be more skeptical of new storage options but we’re willing to look at it” he said.
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