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Spokane water official urges approval of $15 annual fee to fund aquifer protection
Summary
A city water utility representative asked Spokane voters to approve a $15-per-year charge on an upcoming ballot to fund studies, pollution prevention projects and public education for the Spokane Valley–Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer, and said the city council requested the county commission to place the measure before city voters.
A city water utility representative urged Spokane voters to approve a $15-per-year charge to study and protect the Spokane Valley–Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer, saying the measure will appear on ballots in a week after the City Council asked the county commission to place it there.
The aquifer supplies the city’s drinking water, the speaker said, and the fee would fund monitoring, projects to keep pollution out of the aquifer and public education about appropriate uses above the aquifer.
The issue has renewed local interest after four decades of the regional aquifer protection program. The speaker said the aquifer protection area was created about 40 years ago, that Spokane originally joined, and…
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