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Water board to vote on Malibu septic moratorium

latimes.com
Nov. 3, 2009
No new systems would be allowed and use would have to stop in five years. Payments for a central system would range from $500 to $20,000 a month. Blaming small-scale septic systems for causing much of the pollution in Malibu's watershed, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board will...
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler