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		<title>Baltimore Port Hosts PR Tour to Press Cecil County for Renewed Dumping in Earleville; Cheap Ideas for Polluted Water Wells?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BALTIMORE—The Maryland Port Administration pulled out the big cranes, the big cargo ships, a modest motorboat for a putt-putt water tour and a great big goose-egg zero on a chart Tuesday to try to convince Cecil County officials of the need to resume dumping shipping channel dredge spoils at the Pearce Creek dumpsite in Earleville, which a federal study found was responsible for polluting local residents’ drinking water. Without Pearce Creek, shipping in the Upper Bay and the C&#038;D Canal will cease, MPA officials claimed. The dumpsite has not been used for new deposits in 20 years due to concerns by state environmental officials about water quality problems in the area. In related developments, MPA and US Army Corps of Engineers officials held the latest of several private meetings with a limited and select group of Earleville area civic association leaders at a Chesapeake City restaurant on Monday and said the agencies would come up with their own “plan” to deal with the local drinking water contamination, sources told Cecil Times. And a key MPA official said the agency was looking toward an “on-site” water system rather than the locally popular option of piping in top-quality municipal water from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Court of Appeals Rules Cecil County Can Sell Water/Sewer Plants to Artesian; Court Orders ARCA to Pay  Some County Legal Fees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state’s highest court ruled Tuesday that the Cecil County Commissioners had the legal right to sell water and sewage treatment plants to the private Artesian firm, ending a nearly three year legal battle that cost county taxpayers over $203,000 in legal expenses and up to $1 million in total costs. The protracted legal battle was initiated by the Appleton Regional Community Alliance, ARCA, an anti-growth group based in the northeastern area of the county near the Delaware state line. Apart from the substantive ruling in favor of the county, perhaps the most important fine-print of the Court’s decision was its brief directive that the “appellants”—ARCA—must “pay the costs” of the appeal. County Budget Director Craig Whiteford has previously calculated that the total legal bills to the county to defend itself against the ARCA lawsuit on Artesian amounted to about $203,543. The costs of the Circuit Court legal fight are estimated at $150,000 while the appeal costs account for the balance. Thus, the county could take action to try to collect about $53,543 from ARCA. (See previous Cecil Times report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2011/06/arca-lawsuits-cost-county-citizens-up-to-1million-and-counting-on-artesian-sale/ Joseph A. DiNunzio, executive vice president and secretary of Artesian, told Cecil Times Tuesday that the company was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>State &#8220;Plan Maryland&#8221; Mandate Could Halt Cecil County Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new state “Plan Maryland” mandate could halt growth and business development in Cecil County, even in areas designated as a “growth corridor” under the 2010 county comprehensive plan, Cecil County Commissioners were told Tuesday. The new state mandate, proposed in late April and awaiting a signature later in the year by Governor Martin O’Malley, provides little if any opportunities for revision and severely restricts even local towns from development. Especially in rural areas like Cecil County, the new state plan could prevent any growth or economic development outside narrowly defined growth areas in local town limits. County Planning Director Eric Sennstrom used over-the-top rhetoric to convey just how seriously the county could be impacted by the proposal. He likened it to historic land and planning decisions, such as the Stalinist “collectivization” efforts in the former Soviet Union and the Nazis attacks on Jewish ghettos prior to World War II. He said the new state plan would have “catastrophic, if not devastating results” for property values in the county, with the potential for farmers to become “poverty-stricken serfs of the state.” Sennstrom pointed out that even farms located in or near county-designated growth areas could be prevented from selling lands [&#8230;]]]></description>
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