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Article: County officials discuss grouping together to improve water quality
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- Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
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- September 6, 2009
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By BOBBY WARREN
Staff Writer
WOOSTER -- What do you get when you take 10 counties, three
watershed areas, an assortment of soil and water supervisors and
county commissioners and businesses feeling the pressure from the
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency?
Did you say the Mohican, Tuscarawas and Walhonding Water Quality
Trading Proposal?
There's been some initial discussions among some of the parties
about forming a water quality trading area, a mechanism available to
improve streams and waterways by limiting the amount of pollutants/
nutrients, especially phosphorous and nitrates, that get into them.
About 50 officials from Wayne, Holmes, Ashland, Medina,
Tuscarawas, Richland, Knox, ...