NEWBURG — After a 12- year struggle, the Independence water project is complete. Newburg has worked toward providing water to the neighboring unincorporated community of Independence since 2008. The project extended the water line as far as the former Independence School and provides ...
Contract does not cover lifetime water service payments NEWBURG — A proposal to provide a permanent water source for four Newburg families whose wells were compromised by seepage from the old Whitetail mine falls short of what the families want. And town officials don’t like ...
Newburg collects $920 with spring cleanup project NEWBURG — After 12 years of planning and work, Independence could soon be hooked up to the Newburg water system. Sheena Hunt, executive director of the Region VI Planning and Development Council, said most of the water line has ...
NEWBURG — A proposal to provide a permanent water source for four families whose wells were compromised by mine seepage falls short of what the families want.Newburg officials are not happy with it, either.The proposal by Lexington Coal Co. is to extend a water line to the families.But, the ...
NEWBURG — Twelve years after talks began to extend a water line from Newburg to the former Independence School, construction has begun.Newburg has worked toward providing water to the neighboring unincorporated community of Independence since 2008.Newburg Mayor Edgar Fortney said materials ...
By Jessica Nelson and Jeniffer Graham Read the first three parts of the series HERE. Contaminants in the water pouring into Raccoon Creek outside Newburg from a discharge borehole connected to the Whitetail mine are within federal and state regulations. However, environmentalists are ...