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Archive Home > 2007 > March > 13 > Competing interests ask for better water control

Competing interests ask for better water control

State reconsiders wells permit policy

By James Sinks / The Bulletin
March 13, 2007

SALEM - Across Oregon's rural landscape, concerns are rising as well water levels are dropping.

Yet with only a few exceptions, anybody who builds a house can drill a well, and then pump as much as 15,000 gallons of groundwater a day.

That policy is getting a new look in Salem, where....

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