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Show Cedar Valley Wells Water samples taken in March and April from :?t different wells from throughout the valley have shown that high levels of nitrates and sulfates are a continuing problem in that area. Joe Moiling, water expert for the Five County Associaton of Governments, has been administering the Federal 208 water project which the county decided to participate in last fall. Chemistry Professor Joseph Comp and Science Professor Hail Judd from Southern Utah State College are analyzing the samples which are being gathered. Moiling hopes that after the results of the June 12 samples are returned that some assumptions about the causes may be made. Moiling and the professors sampled water in Fiddler Cnayon last week to investigate in-vestigate whether it might bo a possible source for the high levels of contaminates which at some well sites are three times the maximum level allowed for drinking Water by the Environmental Protection Agency. County Building Inspector Hay Anker said that the high levels in some areas of the valley may slow future development of new sub-divisons. sub-divisons. He said that a water and sewage feasibility study is necessary for approval ap-proval of a subdivision, and that the problem may cause some proposed subdivisons to not receive approval until the water problem is corrected. |