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�I <br /> Pumps roar ' n Banta <br /> as residents complain , <br /> BYJACKEDDY 3-23- 3 <br /> Press News Editor "Nothing .can be worse than <br /> The roar of pump engines welcomes trav- when you can't flush your tollet."– <br /> elers to Stoneridge subdivision in Banta after Dennis Duff <br /> everyrain. <br /> The slow growing rural residential area <br /> near Grant Line and Bird roads, northeast of He jokes about his young daughter who <br /> Tracy, is under seige. Its residents daily at- believes the corral fence was built to hold the <br /> tempt to pump out rising water which has water in his "lake." She does not know it was <br /> turned their 11/2-acre lots into swimming pools erected to keep her pony. <br /> and poses a major health hazard because .of That is the only humor that Duff and his <br /> failing septic tanks. wife, Delores, now have. They are angry—at- <br /> Every other day—if it rains, it is even the developer Don Cose, the San Joaquin Local <br /> more frequent—Dennis Duff starts his heavy- Health District and the San Joaquin County <br /> duty pump with its hose line attached to his Planning Department. <br /> drainage pond. For the next 48 hours, the Several ranchettes west of the Duffs, <br /> pump siphons off more than three feet of water Bruce Kelly also has his pump running night <br /> which lays from one end of his white picket and day. Kelly's problem goes beyond having <br /> fence to the other. (Turn to back page col.l) <br />