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Article: Water district calls halt to annexations.(Government)(Utility: Officials say they can't afford to lose any more customers to the city of Florence.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2002
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Byline: LARRY BACON The Register-Guard
FLORENCE - As the city of Florence has grown, it has nibbled away at its neighbor, the Heceta Water District, gradually shrinking the 36-year-old district that serves about 1,900 customers outside the city.
The growth - generally northward - has removed land from the water district through annexations and turned the residents into city water customers. Larry Stonelake, a retired superintendent, estimates that the water district is now about half its original size.
In its early years, the district had customers as far south as 22nd Street in Florence. Now its service area stops at Munsel Lake Road, two miles ...