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		<title>Bottled Water for Pearce Creek Residents as Feds Cite Health Risks; High Manganese Known for Years but Action Delayed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 18:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT Residents of three Earleville communities, who have been fighting for decades to get state and federal agencies to resolve well water pollution caused by a federal dredge spoil dumpsite, will now get free bottled water after the federal Centers for Disease Control recently raised alarm bells about high manganese levels even in homes with water treatment systems. Elevated levels of manganese in drinking water have been shown in a Canadian study to lower children’s IQ and brain function while neurological damage similar to Parkinson’s disease has been found in older adults. A community meeting was hastily scheduled for Saturday 5/28/16, at 10 a.m. at Bohemia Manor High School, on Route 213 in Chesapeake City. Attending will be representatives of the CDC, Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), the Cecil County Health Department, and the US Army Corps of Engineers, which owns the Pearce Creek dumpsite located at the end of Pond Neck Road. Bottled water is expected to be available at the meeting for residents of the West View Shores, Sunset Pointe, and Bayview Estates communities whose wells have been polluted by the dump. There are still many unanswered questions, such as why it took [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Moore Withdraws Vacation Home Regs; Cecil County Council Backs Water, Sewer Plan Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Tari Moore has withdrawn a controversial proposal to impose tough new regulations on single-family homeowners who rent their property to vacationers. And the Cecil County Council endorsed changes to the county’s water and sewer plan to expedite services in the “growth corridor” and a proposed private drug rehab hospital in rural Earleville. The actions came at a 1/13/15 Elkton worksession of the Cecil County Council, whose members had raised questions previously about Moore’s proposed new law to strictly regulate thousands of single-family homes throughout the county in response to a few citizen complaints about one house in Earleville. Under Moore’s proposal, property owners would have had to obtain in advance a “special exception” from the county’s board of appeals, have the property inspected by zoning and health agencies, provide off-street parking at the rate of two parking spaces per bedroom in the house, and limit occupancy to two persons per bedroom. In addition, rentals would have to be for a minimum of five days and for no more than “four weeks per month.” The proposal defined a ‘vacation rental home’ as “a transient vacation rental or use in which overnight accommodations are provided in a family residential [&#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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		<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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