[CPEO-MEF] Hills (IA) rejects perchlorate-free municipal water investment

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hills voters say no to $3 million municipal water system

By Rachel Gallegos
Iowa City Press-Citizen
November 7, 2007

Hills voters rejected an estimated $3 million water system solution 
Tuesday to provide perchlorate-free water to all of the town's residents.

Unofficial poll results show 66 percent of voters, or 195 people, 
rejected the water plan. Thirty-four percent of people, or 99 voters, 
approved it.

...

Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered the town in 
2006 to establish a solution, "the EPA didn't ask for a huge water 
system," Cook said.

He said he thinks the town should consider the other options city 
officials have mentioned ...

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071107/NEWS01/711070320/1079

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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