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Beaver Island well drillers urge protest over House Bill 5319, 2010

Also Whose Water · Beaver Island groundwater warning · House Bill 5319 protest notice

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TypeEvent
Date2010-02
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
2010-02
Kind
Announcement
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
governancewater-qualitycommunitycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The February 2010 Beaver Beacon reported that Beaver Island well drillers Mark and John Zientek urged homeowners to protest Dan Scripps’s House Bill 5319, which they described as a threat to private groundwater use.

Evidence limits

This records the newspaper’s attributed advocacy statement, not an independent legal analysis of the bill or proof of its passage or effect.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, February 2010, "Whose Water?"
    Reports well drillers Mark and John Zientek warning readers about House Bill 5319 and urging homeowners to protest. The article is preserved here as an attributed advocacy notice; the bill’s legal effect is not independently asserted. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the advocacy notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-02_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island well drillers urge protest over House Bill 5319, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-groundwater-house-bill-5319-warning-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2010, "Whose Water?" (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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