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Race Track Settles With Feds For Manure, Urine Discharges

NEW ORLEANS — The owners of the horse racing track in New Orleans have agreed to pay a $2.8 million penalty for letting horse manure and urine into the city’s drainage system for at least six years and to spend …

Sioux Falls, S.D. Settling Suit over Sewer System

South Dakota’s largest city has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed after heavy rains caused its storm and sanitary sewer systems to fail in 2004, flooding dozens of Sioux Falls homes. If a judge approves, a group of about …