August 29, 2008--Tensions escalate at water protection meeting (Norwood Post)
It started with the Town of Norwood’s innocuous efforts to protect drinking water, but last week the situation reached a boiling point when the Farmers Water Development Company threatened to pull the water it sells to the municipal system. It was the threat of gas drilling around the Gurley ditch and the potential contamination that made San Miguel County and Town of Norwood officials explore the possibility of an ordinance to protect the town’s water source, but local ranchers and farmers instead seem threatened by the ordinance itself.
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