CASE STUDY Growing Pains – Trying to Keep Up with Overstrained Resources When the town of Hillsboro, Oregon was incorporated in 1876, the residents had to carry water in buckets from local wells and streams. By the time Hillsboro formed its own utilities commission in 1940, the expanding city had switched from a wooden pipe carrying water from Sain Creek to a steel line from the Tualatin River. Today the area continues to grow, due in larg

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