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SUPCO Finds ODNR In Contempt

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published December 6, 2012 at 6:38 AM EST

The Ohio Supreme Court has found the state Department of Natural Resources in contempt for defying a 2011 order to compensate 87 Mercer County landowners for flood damage.The flooding resulted from of the widening of a spillway from Grand Lake Saint Marys. The justices held a hearing at the request of landowners who claimed the state was dragging its feet. The justices ordered the agency to file all appropriation cases within 4 months.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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