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"textContent": "PRINCETON, Iowa—From the beginning, the new well was a headache. Late in 2022, an overly powerful pump caused eight months of costly water main breaks in Princeton, a town of nearly 1,000 residents on the banks of the silty Mississippi River. Installing a smaller motor seemed to fix that issue, but revealed a different, all-too-familiar […]",
"title": "An Iowa Town Spent $800,000 on a New Well. It Pumps Undrinkable Water."
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