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Hyde County, N.C., Landowner Pleads Guilty to Stealing Wildlife Refuge's Water.

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| August 20, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Virginian-Pilot. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Catherine Kozak

Aug. 20--A persistent drought had left Allan White Ballance's waterfowl impoundments parched. No self-respecting duck was going to check in, and Ballance was in the business of leasing his ponds to hunters.

So the Hyde County farmer figured he'd sneak a little water from his next-door neighbor, the Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, home of the 40,000-acre Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina's largest natural lake.

He brought an excavator and tractor over the refuge border, built a dam in a canal and set up a pair of pumps. During the next four days, Ballance transferred between 6.5 million and 8 million gallons of water from the refuge to a…

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