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Despite a stream of public comment from water quality advocates urging the Teton County Board of County Commissioners to hire a water quality expert, a majority of the board is

Then the idea fell flat. “The very simple bottom line is that the Teton County Health Department has neither the staff nor the funding to support this,” David Peterson told fellow board members Tuesday. “My suspicion is this is not going to be an inexpensive endeavor. The working committee arrived at the consensus that it’s not the time right now, at least, to consider implementing these rules and regulations.” Peterson was one of four health board members who were a pa...

Volunteer public health officials are examining special rules intended to protect residents from nitrate pollution in drinking water, but they’re developing those rules in closed sessions that are off limits to some interested parties. The policy proposal that the Teton District Board of Health is considering would increase surveillance and create a system to warn when nitrates climb above natural levels, which can indicate contamination of an aquifer from septic systems or other causes. T...