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		<title>Cecil County Budget Obstacles: No Pay Raises, Tax Freeze &#8212; Landfill Deficit Awaits Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The script for a citizens’ “town hall” meeting this week on the upcoming Fiscal 2016 Cecil County budget was much the same as similar sessions in the past: the majority of speakers advocated for public schools and library spending and predict dire consequences if these popular programs do not get what their leaders want. But the fiscal realities of the new budget should bring a dose of reality and lower expectations, both for citizens and the county government itself. Cecil County Executive Tari Moore hosted the session 1/13/15 and tried to sound some warnings about the fiscal situation. “We have less revenue to work with,” she said, citing recent state aid cuts approved by the Board of Public Works affecting the current Fiscal 2015 county budget. And with the new Gov. Larry Hogan having to find hundreds of millions of dollars in additional spending cuts to balance his own upcoming budget, Cecil County will no doubt face more cutbacks in state assistance. Nevertheless, Moore pledged to develop “the most responsible budget I can.” But deep in the charts and graphs in a fiscal report prepared by the county’s Finance Department, and that agency’s recent evaluation of the Fiscal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>State OKs Permit for US Army Corps Dump in Earleville; But No Dumping Until Construction Starts on New Cecilton Waterline</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) has issued a six-month permit to the US Army Corps of Engineers to allow renewed dumping of shipping channel dredge spoil at the Pearce Creek site the Corps owns in southern Cecil County. But dumping could not resume until construction begins on a seven-mile water pipeline from the Town of Cecilton to serve Earleville residents whose wells were polluted by the dump. The state agency dismissed several concerns and requests from local residents, including calls for the provision of free bottled water from the time dumping resumed until the Cecilton waterline was fully operational. Such issues were “beyond the scope” of MDE’s authority or procedures for issuing the permit. But the permit is conditional upon eventual completion of the Cecilton pipeline and further limits the onset of new dumping to coincide with the start of the pipeline’s construction. Cecilton Mayor Joseph Zang, who initiated the concept of the water pipeline and worked to convince Corps and state officials of its feasibility, told Cecil Times that he anticipates construction could begin in the summer, before the Corps expects to resume dumping at Pearce Creek. So that condition of the state permit could be met, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Army Corps to Earleville Dump Victims: No Free, Safe Water for You; FedsThumb Nose at Citizens, Cecil County Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Army Corps of Engineers is refusing to provide temporary free bottled water to Earleville residents whose drinking water wells were polluted by a federal dredge spoil dumpsite, which the Corps and the Maryland Port Administration (MPA) are trying to re-open to new dumping after a 20-year hiatus due to pollution concerns. During a meeting last week at the Chesapeake City offices of the Corps that included federal and state officials involved in the issue along with residents of the three communities affected by the dump, Tony DiPasquale, with the Corps’ Philadelphia regional office, said the federal agency had decided to refuse a request by the residents—and the Cecil County Council—to provide free bottled water until a proposed municipal water pipeline from the town of Cecilton is constructed and extended some seven miles to the affected communities in Earleville. The pipeline is not expected to be in service until at least two years after the fall, 2015 date by which the Corps and MPA want to renew dumping at the Pearce Creek dumpsite owned by the Corps. But before dumping is resumed, the Corps must obtain a Water Quality Certification permit from the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). [&#8230;]]]></description>
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