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Purchase of credits to offset future pollution OK’d

May 11, 2015, Santa Rosa, CA – Regulators have signed off on an unusual watershed cleanup project that gives Santa Rosa credit for removing a potential source of pollution of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, credit the city can use to avoid stiff fines should its wastewater treatment plant pollute the troubled waterway in the future.

The effort to remove hundreds of tons of manure from a former dairy on the banks of Windsor Creek was largely completed last fall by a Kendall-Jackson winery executive who heads the investment group that converted most of the 177-acre property to vineyards. READ MORE