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Metropolitan borough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Metropolitan Borough (or Metropolitan District) is a type of local government district in England, covering urban areas within Metropolitan Counties. Metropolitan districts were Local Education Authorities and were responsible for social services. Between 1899 and 1965, Metropolitan boroughs were the sub-divisions of the County of London. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_borough   (313 words)

City of Wakefield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A decision was made, in 2004, to sell the district's extensive council housing to a private housing association, who would be more efficient with repairs and maintaining decent accommodation; as council housing represented almost 30% of the district, this was the second-largest stock transfer in British history. The district was, for a long time, the council on which the Labour Party held more seats than anywhere else in the country. The district is mainly made out of old coal-mining towns, although other industries include wool, chemicals, machine tools, shoddy goods [mainly in Ossett], glass [Castleford] and other forms of manufacturing. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/City_of_Wakefield   (499 words)

Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Railway was incorporated in 1853 as the ‘North Metropolitan Railway’ and was re-incorporated on 7 August 1854 as a mixed-gauge line: it opened on 10 January 1863 from a junction with the main line Great Western Railway (GWR) at Bishops Road, Paddington to Victoria Street (later Farringdon Street) in the City of London. The oldest section of the ‘’’Metropolitan Railway’’’ (MetR) - the precursor of the Metropolitan Line - opened in 1863, running between Farringdon and Paddington, and was the world's oldest underground railway. The Metropolitan Railway was taken over by the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, becoming the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_and_Metropolitan_District_Railways   (1957 words)

SB405 - Allows the creation of a Metropolitan Park District The cost of running the office for the Metropolitan District shall not exceed fifteen percent of the sales taxes collected beginning the second fiscal year. St. Louis City shall have three members to the Metropolitan Park District board. Any purchases over ten thousand dollars made by the Metropolitan Park District are subject to competitive bidding. www.senate.state.mo.us /99info/bills/SB405.HTM   (368 words)

Knee-Deep Disputes for 'Water Buffaloes' The Metropolitan, or the Met, as it is often called, is a confederation of 27 cities and local water districts that stretches from Santa Barbara to Mexico. Figure (Not availaable) -Water, Water From Everywhere: The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the biggest water wholesaler in the nation, stretching from Ventura County to Mexico and serving 16 million people. He patrolled the district in a chauffeured car and didn't hesitate to tell everyone from engineers to local water board directors how to do their jobs. www.sci.sdsu.edu /salton/WaterBuffaloes.html   (3881 words)

MADISON METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT The District may alter, amend or modify the limitations established in Section 5.2.1 if it determines that it is necessary to meet the objectives of this Ordinance or the conditions of the District's WPDES permit. Revenues derived from the application of this Ordinance shall be used to defray the District’s costs of operating and maintaining adequate wastewater facilities and to provide sufficient funds for capital outlay, debt service costs and capital improvements. Territory which is added to the District in accordance with the provisions of Section 66.26, Wisconsin Statutes, as amended from time to time, shall be subject to such connection charges and annexation fees as the Commission may from time to time determine. www.madsewer.org /SUO.htm   (5600 words)

(BW) Potential Cryptosporidium Detection Breakthrough Subject Of Metropolitan Water District Patent Application The Metropolitan Water District is a regional water agency that imports water from Northern California and the Colorado River, and delivers it on a wholesale basis to the coastal plain of Southern California. CONTACT: Metropolitan Water District, Los Angeles Bob Gomperz, 213/217-6866 (office) 818/797-5478 (home) rgomperz@mwd.dist.ca.us Bob Muir, 213/217-6930 (office) 714/879-7478 (home) rmuir@mwd.dst.ca.us Rob Hallwachs, 213/217-6450 (office) 818/398-7697 (home) rhallwachs@mwd.dst.ca.us Sal Vazquez, 213/217-6752 (office) 818/951-4364 (home) svazquez@mwd.dst.ca.us In the new process for which a patent is pending, researchers at the district's water-quality laboratory are using DNA amplification and hybridization techniques to speed up the processes of identifying crypto organisms, and determine whether they are dead or alive and if they can cause illness. www.aegis.com /news/bw/1996/BW960605.html   (780 words)

Metro Water - Home The District, commonly known as Metro Water District, was created by the Pima County Board of Supervisors as a result of a thorough review process and the purchase of the assets of the former Metropolitan Water Company. The District covers a twenty-six square mile area in the northwest region of the Tucson metropolitan area (Click here for a map of our service areas). Due to the lack of maintenance and long-range water planning by Metropolitan Water Company, the District is aggressively repairing and replacing critical water mains throughout its distribution system as well as planning increased storage capacity. www.metrowater.com   (510 words)

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District provides services through 42 stations and 720 uniformed and support personnel to nearly 600,000 people in a 417 square mile area. The varied demographics of the District provide opportunity for its personnel to respond to emergencies in rural, suburban and urban settings. The wide diversity of emergency incidents require firefighters to be proficient in wildland fire fighting, structural fire fighting, crash fire rescue, technical rescue, swift water rescue, hazardous material mitigation, and paramedic medical services. www.smfd.ca.gov   (129 words)

MDC - The Environment The primary mission of the Metropolitan District is to provide safe pure drinking water and environmentally responsible sewage collection and treatment. In addition, the Metropolitan District serves as a steward for some of the most well preserved natural resources in the State of Connecticut. The District maintains a demo forest as a living classroom to demonstrate forestry and its impact on people, wildlife and the environment. www.themdc.com /environment.htm   (234 words)

Bradford Metropolitan District Council Bradford Metropolitan District Council is considering plans from Landmark Developments and Stannifer Hotels for the development of a 120-bedroom hotel in the Little Germany area of the city. Bradford Metropolitan District Council is considering plans from Scotfield for the development of a health and fitness centre on Baildon's Butterfields estate, with the creation of about 60 jobs. Bradford Metropolitan District Council is to consider plans from JJ Gallagher for the development of a hotel and leisure centre on the site of the Vicar Lane car park. www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /brl83584.htm   (684 words)

Metropolitan Water District Extends Deadline for Innovative Conservation Applications The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a cooperative of 26 cities and water agencies serving more than 17 million people in six counties. Metropolitan has long promoted water conservation as a critical element of ensuring a reliable, high-quality water supply for semi-arid Southern California, a lesson learned from the state's last drought. The District imports water from the Colorado River and Northern California to supplement local supplies, and helps its members to develop increased water conservation, recycling, storage, and other water-management programs. www.csrwire.com /article.cgi/1485.html   (333 words)

Madison Metropolitan School District The Madison Metropolitan School District does not discriminate in its education programs, related activities (including School and Community Recreation) and employment practices as required by applicable local, state and federal laws. In a ceremony at the State Capitol on October 5, each school received a recognition plaque and $1,500 for use by the school. www.madison.k12.wi.us   (87 words)

Metropolitan Police Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Metropolitan Police was the second official non-paramilitary police force in the world (after the City of Glasgow Police), and is generally regarded as the first to be organised on a modern civil police basis. The Metropolitan Police's headquarters are at New Scotland Yard in Westminster, commonly known as Scotland Yard. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) (commonly referred to by its former official name of the Metropolitan Police, or colloquially as The Met) is the territorial police force in Greater London, England, with the exception of the square mile of the City of London, which has its own police force, the City of London Police. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Service   (1096 words)

Department of Conservation and Recreation The DCR was formed by the merger of the Department of Environmental Management and the Metropolitan District Commission in July 2003. www.mass.gov /dcr   (21 words)

THE CALIFORNIA WATER WARS / WATER FLOWING TO FARMS, NOT FISH / Environmentalists lose leverage as agribusiness locks in cheap, plentiful supplies -- for decades The district, they say, is buying water on the open market from agricultural districts; the water interests of big farms and big cities are thus congruent as never before. Birmingham said his district uses no Trinity water, noting that Westlands water is pumped from the delta to San Luis Reservoir in the winter, when the primary flow is from the Sacramento River. Central Valley irrigation districts are signing federal contracts that assure their farms ample water for the next 25 to 50 years. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/23/MNGS9FCR3L1.DTL   (2237 words)

OCWD Online - About Orange County Water District OCWD primarily recharges the basin with water from the Santa Ana River and to a lesser extent with imported water purchased from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Orange County Water District (OCWD) was formed in 1933 by a special act of the California State Legislature to protect Orange County’s rights to water in the Santa Ana River. Additional efforts to increase local water supplies include expanding the capacity of the existing percolation facilities, treating poor quality water to make it useable, studying methods to extend the life of filtration membranes, improving advanced purification technologies, using bacteria to remove contaminants, and studying the quality of Santa Ana River water and other water-related issues. www.ocwd.com /_html/about.htm   (780 words)

Welcome to metrowastewater.com - Home The Metro Wastewater Reclamation District was formed by the Colorado state legislature in 1961 to provide wastewater transmission and treatment services to member municipalities and special connectors in compliance with federal, state, and county laws. In April 2004, the Metro District reached a milestone having passed the 10-year mark for perfect compliance with the numerical limits of its discharge permit. The Metro District applies most of the biosolids that result from cleaning wastewater to agricultural land in eastern Colorado. www.metrowastewater.com   (206 words)

Metropolitan School District of Washington Township - Indianapolis, Indiana Metropolitan School District of Washington Township - Indianapolis, Indiana www.msdwt.k12.in.us   (9 words)

MDC - Water Supply & Pollution Control at the MDC Training Facility, 125 Maxim Road, Hartford, CT The Metropolitan District (MDC) is a non-profit municipal corporation chartered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1929 to provide potable water and sewerage services on a regional basis. Our mission at the Metropolitan District is to ensure quality and value beyond customer expectations in providing safe, pure drinking water, environmentally responsible sewage collection, natural resource stewardship and other services. Today, the MDC provides quality water supply, water pollution control, mapping, and household hazardous waste collection to eight member municipalities -- Bloomfield, East Hartford, Hartford, Newington, Rocky Hill, West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor -- and to portions of other towns in the region. www.themdc.com   (185 words)

Evergreen Colorado Metropolitan District The Evergreen Metropolitan District provides water and wastewater treatment services to Evergreen and the surrounding areas. Even though the District will maintain a $4.00 per thousand gallon water rate for the high water use tier for all usage of 15,000 gallons per month and above, it is doing so as a reminder to customers to not waste our mountain environments most valuable resource. Because of this, the District has eliminated the middle water rate tier, and reduced the high water use tier rate. www.evergreenmetrodistrict.com   (270 words)

Madison Metropolitan School District Tracks Tech Work Online Before the Madison Metropolitan School District automated its system for tracking work requests related to the district’s computers, it designated technology liaisons at each of the district’s 47 schools, completed three-part paper work orders, sent one part to district headquarters, kept one for their records, and stowed the third in a binder. Until the summer of 2000, Madison Metropolitan School District had no way of centrally processing the hundreds of work orders generated every week by its 7,200 computers and assorted peripherals. When Tom Germanson joined the district as microcomputing manager in mid-1999, one of his first initiatives was to enable all work orders to be submitted electronically for greater visibility and efficiency. www.thejournal.com /magazine/vault/A3541.cfm   (570 words)

Police - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch Police organizations also must sometimes deal with the issue of police corruption which is often abetted by a code of silence that encourages unquestioning loyalty to one's comrades over the cause of justice. Local policing is usually conducted by the police departments at the city, township or village level and may range from one person offices (sometimes still called the town marshal) to the 40,000 men and women of the New York City Police Department. Police sometimes involve themselves in the maintenance of public order, even where no legal transgressions have occurred -- for example, in some Australian jurisdictions, people who are drunk and causing a public nuisance may be removed to a "drying-out centre" until they recover from the effects of the alcohol. encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /police.htm   (2297 words)

POLICE COURTS - LoveToKnow Article on POLICE COURTS The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840 gave power to map out the whole of the metropolitan police district into police court divisions, and to establish police courts wherever necessary, the artificial limit of twenty-seven magistrates being at the same time preserved. One police magistrate has the same powers as two justices, but may not act in anything which has to be done at special or petty sessions of all the justices acting in the division or at quarter sessions. In 1839 there were nine police courts; since 1792 there had been three magistrates to each court, and the act of 1839 retained twenty-seven as the maximum number at any time (s. www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/POLICE_COURTS.htm   (1004 words)

Metropolitan District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Metropolitan District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance www.metrocma.org   (8 words)

index The General Manager of the District is Mike Wilson, who was appointed by the Board of Trustees in August of 2005. The District is citizen-administered through a Board of Trustees comprised of seven individuals: five appointed by the Salt Lake The District's main water supplies are Little Cottonwood Creek and Deer Creek Reservoir. www.mwdslc.org   (323 words)

Metropolitan School District of Steuben County It is the policy of The Metropolitan School District of Steuben County to provide equal access to all employment and educational opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, creed or ancestry, age, gender, marital status, or disability. The Metropolitan School District of Steuben County is a growing and progressive district. he Metropolitan School District of Steuben County believes that all students can learn and that learning is a lifelong process. www.msdsteuben.k12.in.us   (300 words)

Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County, NC Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County, NC This web page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. www.msdbc.org   (18 words)

Memorandum of Agreement, United States Department of Justice and the District of Columbia and the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department At the discretion of the Chief of Police or designee, any incident that may be investigated by chain of command district supervisors may be assigned for investigation to FIT or to chain of command supervisors from a district other that the district in which the incident occurred. Chain of command district supervisors may investigate all use of force incidents except for those incidents involving a serious use of force, serious physical injury, or any use of force indicating potential criminal conduct by an officer. The term "City" means the City of the District of Columbia. www.usdoj.gov /crt/split/documents/dcmoa.htm   (13426 words)

Madison Metropolitan schools - district elementary, middle, and high school information Madison Metropolitan school information: Madison Metropolitan schools, Madison Metropolitan districts, Madison Metropolitan cities Madison Metropolitan schools - district elementary, middle, and high school information NCLB requires all districts and schools receiving Title I funds to meet state "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) goals for their total student populations and for specified demographic subgroups, including major ethnic/racial groups, economically disadvantaged students, limited English proficient (LEP) students, and students with disabilities. www.greatschools.net /cgi-bin/wi/district_profile/224   (203 words)

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