Clark County, North Las Vegas approve Sloan Channel settlement

Published Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 | 12:37 p.m.

Updated Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 | 7:25 p.m.

Clark County commissioners signed off Wednesday morning on settling lawsuits regarding North Las Vegas transporting treated wastewater via the county-owned Sloan Channel. The North Las Vegas City Council in a meeting Wednesday night unanimously voted to ratify the settlement, meaning residents along the Sloan Channel can look forward to a future without swarms of bugs and the smell of rotting algae. More than a year ago and without permission from the county, North Las Vegas began to release treated wastewater into the Sloan Channel, which is a floodwater channel that leads to Lake Mead. North Las Vegas had built a ...

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By peacelily

Nov. 7, 2012

8:57 p.m.

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North Las Vegas made a bad decision and now they will have to rectify it.

It would have been appropriate to work out a plan with Clark County, and Clark Co. should have agreed to work with North Las Vegas.

This was about money motives gone bad with arrogant actions.
By mastic

Nov. 8, 2012

1:20 a.m.

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The little guy who was in charge of building this plant, davey bereskin, is now in South Carolina, after doing more harm to North Las Vegas than Hurricane Sandy did to the east coast.