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Archive Home > 2004 > June > 17 > Pollutant detected in wells

Pollutant detected in wells

Officials: Findings do not signal problem with La Pine sewer district

By Lily Raff / The Bulletin
June 17, 2004

LA PINE - The first samples from the La Pine Special Sewer District's new monitoring wells show nitrates - at the maximum level permitted in drinking water - in some of the groundwater under hay fields used to treat waste.

But the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), the agency that....

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