By Matt Sanders ~ Southeast Missourian

Oak Ridge Mayor Don England knows the difficulties of providing sewer service for a small town.

For six years his city, population 202 according to the 2000 U.S. Census, has worked to get the funding to install a nearly $2 million sewer system.

The city was incorporated in 1862. Since then homes have used septic tanks, maligned by public health officials for their propensity to overfill or break, leaking contaminants into the ground.

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Posted by dcjaya at January 20, 2008 12:11 AM