Coos Bay water users escape pain of drought


THE WORLD: Project completed years ago helps area deal with drought years.

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THE WORLD: Project completed years ago helps area deal with drought years.

Rob Schab, the general manager of the Coos Bay-North Bend Water Board, said it would take a lack of any rainfall whatsoever, between now and mid-December, before the water board would even start to think about curtailing customer water usage.

That is a result, he said, of the community stepping up to the plate and funding a major water supply project at the turn of the century.

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