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Vol. 7, No. 29
Including Surrounding Communities
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Keeping town well-supplied by Ruth Roberts Staff Writer Drilling will commence in Discovery Bay next week, but it won’t be of the “black gold, Texas tea” variety. Contractors will be drilling for a new water production well, and while it’s unlikely any “bubbalin’ crude” will come geysering from the ground, what will come up – and eventually out – will be clean, clear and treated drinking water. The CSD Board gave the green light to staff in a special meeting Monday night to begin drilling well No. 6 in the parking lot of the district office on Willow Lake Road. General Manager Virgil Koehne asked for the meeting ahead of the regular CSD monthly meeting in order to facilitate putting the contractors in place as quickly as possible. “My thinking was that I wanted to get it drilled before
school starts because of traffic problems and the noise factor,” said Koehne. “So with that quick timeline, we needed the board’s approval to hire the drilling company and making sure the contractor was available.” Although wells may be dug in a variety of locations, regardless of where the drilling takes place, the result is always the same – raw water that must be piped into a treatment plant. Putting a pipe under the ground and bringing it to one of Discovery Bay’s four treatment plants could be costly – approximately $50 to $100 per foot. In light of the expense, Koehne suggested drilling as close to a treatment plant as possible; in this case, the one at the district office. Before the well site could be approved, however, a test – or monitoring – had to be dug to confirm the presence of a body
July 17, 2009
THIS WEEK
Moonwalker mourned
The odds were 1,600,000-1, but two East County fans of the King of Pop won an invitation to his sendoff.
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Star-spangled buccaneer OK, so the Fourth of July has come and gone. The Press has rarely missed a chance to run a picture of Old Glory, though, and this one comes courtesy of Discovery Bay’s Ed McClelland. He’s at the helm of his son Joseph’s pirate ship above, plying the waters of Pine Mountain Lake on July 4. The boat’s name for the day was the USS Joseph Bauer, after their favorite Marine serving in Afghanistan. Ed’s planning another shipment of packages to the troops (he’s already sent hundreds), so if you’d like to help, e-mail him at dockdocktor@yahoo.com.
Staking out the sloughs Boating safety enforcement will be stepped up on Delta waterways this weekend.
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Sunset shines on athletes
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Antioch adopts greenhouse goals
Press picks up national awards The Brentwood Press and Publishing Corporation has earned four awards in the National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper and Better Newspaper Advertising contests. The Press picked up a Third Place award for Best Editorial for a piece written by Editor Rick Lemyre about letters to the editor and the First Amendment. Columnist Ger Erickson’s piece about the effects on air quality and breathing of the California wildfire season of 2008 earned an honorable mention for Best Serious
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Column. On the advertising side, the paper’s Best of Antioch publication earned a First Place award for Best Sales Promotion Section. Our Fall/Winter Wedding Planner picked up a Third Place award in the same category. “I’m ecstatic that we’re once again being recognized nationally for all the hard work our fantastic team has done,” said Publisher Greg Robinson. The Press, which publishes weekly newspapers in see Awards page 22A
Study: new regulations will increase costs to residents, businesses by Dave Roberts Staff Writer The Antioch City Council recently agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the city in an effort to stop global warming, getting out ahead of state mandates that will also affect Brentwood, Oakley and un-
incorporated far East County – mandates that critics say will greatly increase costs to residents and businesses while doing little to change the planet’s climate. Before unanimously voting on June 23 to approve the CO2 emission reduction goals, the council was told by the city’s Climate and Energy Assistant Nicholas Tagas that if nothing is done to stop global warming, Knightsen, Discovery Bay and eastern Oakley will be underwater by 2059. In addition, 60 to 80 percent of the Sierra snowpack will disappear, the Delta will increase see Goals page 22A
Fast finds! Search the business directory. Shopping, dining ... anything you need. Find it in the business directory at www.thepress.net. See page 11A.
Brentwood’s Sunset Park is no local sandlot; the sprawling complex draws players from all across the East Bay.
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