Iowa review of final bottle bill rules set for Nov 15
The Iowa Solid Waste Disposal Commission will consider final rules for the state bottle bill deposit on beverage containers. A five cent deposit applies to liquor bottles May 1 and beer plus carbonated drinks July 1. Final draft likely keeps changes minimal after a Oct public hearing.
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Iowa Solid Waste Disposal Commission
Iowa
David Bach
Department of Environmental Quality
DEQ
Bach
Solid Waste Disposal Commission
Bottle Bill Rules Spark Debate on Phase in and Litter Goal
The new bottle and can recovery law faces criticism over its phase in and the requirement that returns be reasonably intact. Distributors and retailers argue the rules ignore timing differences between small and large stores and risk leaving them with unsellable inventory. Bach counters that the law is clear with fixed dates May 11 and July 1 and cannot be altered.
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Bach
Legal fight grows from 1976 Independence pipeline blast
A Buchanan County suit targets Katherine Place owner of the Independence farm where a tiling machine struck an underground pipeline causing an April 1976 explosion. Neil Schmit seeks 500000 for injuries and losses and multiple related suits proceed among Hershberger Tiling Northern Natural Gas Place Merfeld and others. Jury empaneled. trial slated to last three weeks.
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Buchanan County District Court
Neil Schmit
Katherine Place
Schmit
Hershberger Tiling Company
Jesup
Richard Merfeld
Hershberger Tiling
Northern Natural Gas
Merfeld
Roger Hershberger
Place
Hershberger and
Hershberger
Joseph Keefe
County Board Votes to Rent Mobile Home for Care Facility
Iowa County Supervisors approved renting a 14 by 70 foot trailer for six months to house administrators Jim and Jean Garringer at the County Care Facility. The rent is 300 dollars monthly plus a 400 dollar moving and setup charge, with delivery possibly this week from Nelson Trailer Court in Cedar Rapids.
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Iowa
Iowa County Board of Supervisors
Jim
Jean Garringer
Garringer
Nelson Trailer Court
Cedar Rapids
Nelson
Leonard Thys
Three Die in Buchanan Highway 20 Head-On Crash
A Tuesday head-on collision on Highway 20 seven miles east of Independence killed three people. Grace Bertholf, 78, of Savanna Illinois, died en route to a hospital, while Earl Preston, 78, and Leah Preston, 77, of Dubuque, were pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say the eastbound Bertholf car apparently crossed the center line into the Preston vehicle.
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Grace Bertholf
Savanna
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Dubuque
Earl Preston
Leah
Prestons
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