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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Eric Flowers / The Bulletin
October 11, 2003
For five years, Bill Gebhardt and his family got water from a 12,000 gallon concrete tank outside their modest home east of Bend.
Every three months or so, Gebhardt would refill the cistern with water drawn from an open irrigation canal that meanders through his neighbor's property on the....