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Col. Gary Beard retired Monday exactly 25 years to the day after receiving his commission in the Army in 1997.

The Capital Area Groundwater Conservation District’s director responded this week to the Baton Rouge Water Company’s criticism of its plans for a new metering system.

At a contentious meeting today, the Capital Area Groundwater Conservation District board voted to more than triple what it charges for water from $20 to $65 per million gallons.

Industry Overuse Puts Capital City Drinking Water At Risk Until about 10 years ago, the 86-year-old retired contractor was like most of his neighbors in the city’s leafy Southdowns neighborhood near Louisiana State University; he simply didn’t put much thought into the water flowing from his taps. But then he went back to school and learned about hydrology and the movement of water underground. He got a master’s degree in climatology and wrote his thesis on the city’s freshwater supply. “I became very concerned that the aquifer was in danger from saltwater intrusion,” said Town, w...