People for and against a rural domestic water district in southeast La Plata County will have more time to make their feelings known. On Tuesday, the county commissioners announced they will continue taking comments on Oct. 15 at SunUte Community Center at 7 p.m.; and they will continue taking landowner exclusion requests until Oct. 5.The commissioners stated their intent to approve all exclusion requests, including mineral interests, submitted by that date. Residents filled the commissioners’ meeting room and spilled out into the hall Tuesday. They commented for and against the district service plan, the second effort by a citizens’ group that wants the district.Opposition has centered on the main proposed water source (Vallecito) and the prospect that people in low density areas could be paying the district property tax for many years without getting water service – even though their irrigation water is supplying the system.

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