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By MORGAN, Jon  Farmers in slip-affected North Island areas are being asked to change their ways to reduce the damage caused by silt. JON MORGAN reports.   Coffers -- the name conjures up images of big bins filled with treasure and, in a way, that's what they are.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 25--ROTATIONAL CROP fallowing, if done properly, can allow a farmer or group of farmers on an irrigation canal to lease water temporarily for much-needed income while holding on to the permanent water rights.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 24--LOWER ARKANSAS Valley Water Conservancy District officials are on the right track, demonstrating leadership and independence in their quest to protect the region's rural water supplies from being lost to the urban Front Range.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 5--THERE'S A little mud on Pueblo's face following a small sewage spill last week, but it's not an embarrassment.
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By Amy Choate-Nielsen Deseret Morning News  PROVO -- Utah County officials may allow a gravel-pit company to keep digging in an area that isn't zoned for industrial use -- but not if the neighbors can help it.
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By GERARD SHIELDS  Summer is a great time for a water fight, unless of course you are in Congress, where things can get muddy pretty quickly.  U.S. Rep.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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By DIRK MEISSNER  VICTORIA (CP) - Pounding rains and rising river waters had some northwest B.C. residents piling sandbags to protect their homes against what the province said Monday would be inevitable flooding.
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By Andy Paras, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 7--MONCKS CORNER -- The Berkeley County Planning Commission held off  on granting a zoning request to a Ross Perot Jr.-led company Tuesday because  of concerns about the impact its massive industrial project would have on  traffic.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Scientists have coaxed a common soil bacteria into strengthening the ground it lives in, raising the prospect of new construction techniques for stabilizing slopes or reducing earthquake damage.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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Don't let a will get in the way.
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By Shelli Derobertis, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.  Dec.
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By Mike Gorrell, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb.
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People in the Cornish village of Boscastle are trying to protect their properties from flooding.