Water at forefront for Westminster elections today by Bryan Schutt

“Water at forefront for Westminster” By Bryan Schutt Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Westminster officials have spent countless hours and millions of dollars trying to protect water supplies, find new resources and provide quality drinking water.

Still, the city has less water than it needs for future projects and has budgeted even more spending for water exploration projects. So balancing water resources protection with continued growth will be one of the tasks at hand for the incoming mayor and two Common Council members.

It wasn’t long ago when in the summer of 2002, the city actually had to truck water in from the Medford Quarry to supplement the city’s water supply. Now a multi-million dollar pipeline connecting the quarry to the city’s reservoir is near completion and the new officials will have one drought-protection solution under their belts.

Building the Medford Quarry Pipeline was part of an agreement with the Maryland Department of the Environment in April 2007. As the city meets MDE mandates, more water is freed up, but the current officials have noted how pricey each project is.

The Carroll County Times asked the candidates: How do you intend to balance water resources protection and conservation with continued growth?

Read the candidates’ responses here: Water at forefront for Westminster

20090505 Water at forefront for Westminster By Bryan Schutt

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/05/05/news/local_news/4water_forefront.txt

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