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Residents urge city to limit water use, question notice and annexation for proposed data center
Summary
Multiple residents told the Warrenton Board of Aldermen they oppose a proposed data center annexation, citing risks to private wells, inconsistent notice about annexation boundaries and conflicting information about whether city or county water will supply the facility.
Several residents told the Warrenton Board of Aldermen on Sept. 16 they are opposed to a proposed data center and urged the city to protect local water supplies and notification procedures.
Raymond Bergeron, who said he lives adjacent to the proposed site, told the board he fears new wells or unregulated groundwater pumping would harm neighbors’ private water supplies. “If they go in there and they drill a well and start pumping water with impunity, we're all going to be out of water in 6 months,” Bergeron said, and he urged the board to require the project to connect to city water and cap…
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