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County Signs Water-Testing Agreement
By: Steve Robb - Athens Messenger staff reporter
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An agreement for baseline water testing near an injection well site was signed Thursday by the Athens County Commissioners.
The $15,637 contract is with Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, which will do the water sampling from private water wells and send them to a lab for analysis. The idea behind baseline testing is to establish the current condition of groundwater in case contamination occurs in the future.
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