Brief: Station faces fine for city water use

Friday, Dec. 11, 1998 | 11:56 a.m.

The Kansas City Star reported the Missouri Gaming Commission this week voted to drop charges against several casinos that had been accused of operating illegally. The charges were dropped because voters approved their off-river locations last month. The old law required riverboats to operate in the Mississippi or Missouri rivers.

The exception is Station Kansas City, which is owned by Station Casinos of Las Vegas. Station is accused of using city tap water in violation of the old state law, which required casino moats to be filled with 100 percent Missouri or Mississippi river water.

Officials said Station must answer the allegation its water-supply system violated the old law and could be fined.

Station General Counsel Scott Nielson said some facts in the tap-water argument were in dispute and added, "We hope to come to some reasonable resolution of this."

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