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onethatcares

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3. we've been trying that

Reply to MindMover (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 07:29 PM

Feb 2014

here in Tampa Bay.

Most expensive type of water recovery ever.

Problems that go on and on and on. Green Asian mussels are one.

If that's going to happen, someone is going to have to pay some big tax dollars to build the
refinery and keep it running.

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we've been trying that onethatcares Feb 2014 #3

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