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Article: CITY FACES A WELL OF A WATER PROBLEM.(Utilities)(Harrisburg learns its best source of drinking water is on someone else's land)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2007
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Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard
HARRISBURG - Oops.
It seems that the city of Harrisburg drilled a well on someone else's property without permission.
Ten years ago.
And extracted as much as 400 gallons of water per minute since then.
City Administrator Bruce Cleeton told the City Council last week that Well No. 5, Harrisburg's most prolific drinking water source, probably does not sit on a narrow strip of land the city bought a decade ago specifically for the purpose of sinking a new well.
Instead, the thirsty, growing city apparently stuck its straw into a neighboring, half-acre parcel owned by Ellen Leigh of Battleground, Wash., Cleeton ...