More the 15,000 protest notices about the water district's proposed user fee were received by the Tuesday deadline, which may be enough to formally kill the fee, but which are also obviously enough to make it politically impossible for the board to implement it. Kelly Nix has the latest, including the district's other options to get the money it says it needs ... more preview.

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