For city officials and residents of Columbia, it’s not enough to pay more than $200,000 for the authority to dump fill in an unnamed tributary of Gans Creek. They say that it is important to make sure the money is spent locally on other stream projects in the area.
Filling in a stream for interchange to cost city more than $200,000 in federal fees
City Council, residents want money to go to local stream conservation projects
Sunday, October 7, 2007 | 5:45 p.m. CDT;
updated 1:44 a.m. CDT, Friday, July 18, 2008
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