State board allows Jamestown residents with dry wells to connect to municipal water - TPR: The Public's Radio

State board allows Jamestown residents with dry wells to connect to municipal water - TPR: The Public's Radio

The Rhode Island Water Resources Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to allow four Jamestown households to connect to the town’s water. The residents, who live just north of the Newport-Pell bridge along Seaview Avenue, say they ran out of usable water in their own wells more than two years ago. Some of the residents say […] The post State board allows Jamestown residents with dry wells to connect to municipal water appeared first on TPR: The P…

Reduction in state funding for dry well programs creating angst among groundwater agencies – SJV Water

A reduction in state funding for a Visalia-based nonprofit is creating a lot of angst among groundwater agencies and prompting hushed conversations about who should get the bill when domestic wells go dry. The issue is highly sensitive as the state Water Resources Control Board holds both the purse strings to fund emergency water responses and the hammer over agencies trying to get groundwater plans approved under the Sustainable Groundwater Man…