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By Craig Tenbroeck
North County Times
February 5, 2008
VISTA
-- City officials in Vista and Carlsbad have hammered out a
tentative deal with water quality regulators that could lessen
the penalty for the 7.3 million gallon sewage spill last
spring that fouled Buena Vista lagoon.
Under the proposed settlement, released Monday for public
review, the cities would pay $200,000 to the state Water
Resources Control board and $500,000 to wildlife agencies for
local environmental improvements.
Last
year, water quality regulators proposed a $1.1 million fine,
but the settlement slashes $395,000 of that liability on the
condition that the cities upgrade the sewer main that suffered
the leak.
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