Merrick County, Nebraska residents frustrated with water pollution cleanup inaction

August 13, 2008 - As officials from the state Department of Environmental Quality met with the Merrick County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, a handful of frustrated residents took the opportunity to fire at both groups.

First, they asked DEQ officials several pointed questions about the contaminated groundwater from the former Nebraska Solvents Co. site northeast of Grand Island.

Then they unloaded on the county board through a livid letter signed by 25 property owners.

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