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		<title>Cecil County Health Dept. Drops Some Key Beach Testing, Pollution Monitoring in Cost-Cutting Move</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Health Department has decided to drop summer monitoring of pollution and potential health risks at six local beaches—including a southern county beach adjacent to a dredge spoil dumpsite found to have polluted area groundwater. The county Health Department is technically a state agency but a significant part of its budget comes from Cecil County taxpayers. And in the currently pending Fiscal 2015 budget, the health agency is tentatively slated to get an extra $345,000 in county funds earmarked only for drug abuse prevention and treatment programs. But the health agency has decided to cut health monitoring of the beaches because it is only getting $4,600 in state funds to monitor Cecil County beach water quality&#8211; down from $14,500 a decade ago, according to a memo sent by Stephanie Garrity, the county health officer, to County Executive Tari Moore recently. Garrity did not specify how much she hoped to save by dropping the local beaches from the monitoring program. Cecil County has 17 beaches that have been traditionally sampled for health hazards by the county health department. Under state law, the agency must continue testing and monitoring at 10 “public” beaches that hold state permits—including beaches at two [&#8230;]]]></description>
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