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By: Wenjia Zhang
Issue date: 1/9/08 Section: News
Last update: 1/9/08 at 7:42 AM EST
Last update: 1/9/08 at 7:42 AM EST
The connection will allow Durham to receive up to 11 million gallons of water daily from Jordan Lake, located about 10 miles away.
"I want to congratulate the administration for expediting this item," Mayor Bill Bell told The Herald-Sun Tuesday. "It's very timely."
City Manager Patrick Baker was also authorized by the council to sign a contract that may be worth up to $550,000 with Hazen and Sawyer, an environmental consulting firm officials want to design the connection.
Currently, an existing connection between Durham and Cary provides approximately 2 million gallons of water for Durham daily. After the installation of a new pump in a few weeks, the existing connection is expected to supply 4 million gallons of water per day.
Baker told The Herald-Sun Tuesday that the city will not lighten up on its water usage restrictions.
"We're still very far behind where we need to be," he said. "We need to have [Durham's two] reservoirs full when we turn toward the end of spring, and they're not."
Taxi driver named "hero"
Moezeldin Elmostafa, the taxi driver who drove exonerated former lacrosse player Reade Seligmann the night of the alleged lacrosse case assault, was nominated by Reader's Digest as one of its "Heroes of the Year" for his involvement in the lacrosse case.
The Sudan native gave an affidavit for the case providing a key alibi for Seligmann and maintained what he said even after he was arrested by the Durham Police Department-an act intended to scare him, Elmostafa said.
He came to America to escape violence and corruption at home.
"[Elmostafa] told the truth. He put it under oath, exactly the way we expect a citizen of this country to do," Jim Cooney, who represented Seligmann, said at the press conference after the former players were exonerated. "I don't know if he's listening to this. But he's one of the great heroes of this case."
State denies hospital expansion
"I want to congratulate the administration for expediting this item," Mayor Bill Bell told The Herald-Sun Tuesday. "It's very timely."
City Manager Patrick Baker was also authorized by the council to sign a contract that may be worth up to $550,000 with Hazen and Sawyer, an environmental consulting firm officials want to design the connection.
Currently, an existing connection between Durham and Cary provides approximately 2 million gallons of water for Durham daily. After the installation of a new pump in a few weeks, the existing connection is expected to supply 4 million gallons of water per day.
Baker told The Herald-Sun Tuesday that the city will not lighten up on its water usage restrictions.
"We're still very far behind where we need to be," he said. "We need to have [Durham's two] reservoirs full when we turn toward the end of spring, and they're not."
Taxi driver named "hero"
Moezeldin Elmostafa, the taxi driver who drove exonerated former lacrosse player Reade Seligmann the night of the alleged lacrosse case assault, was nominated by Reader's Digest as one of its "Heroes of the Year" for his involvement in the lacrosse case.
The Sudan native gave an affidavit for the case providing a key alibi for Seligmann and maintained what he said even after he was arrested by the Durham Police Department-an act intended to scare him, Elmostafa said.
He came to America to escape violence and corruption at home.
"[Elmostafa] told the truth. He put it under oath, exactly the way we expect a citizen of this country to do," Jim Cooney, who represented Seligmann, said at the press conference after the former players were exonerated. "I don't know if he's listening to this. But he's one of the great heroes of this case."
State denies hospital expansion
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