COLUMBIA — The city of Columbia says it is monitoring the locations of previous encampments and is following its processes of removing new encampments and addressing encampments on private property in response to a new deadline for the city to be more specific with how it will address water quality issues.

Missouri Department of Natural Resources Director Kurt Schaefer wrote in a letter last week that the department was setting a Nov. 15 deadline for the city of Columbia, Boone County and University of Missouri to submit their plans to mitigate impacts from homeless encampments on water quality.

The city, county and university have a joint Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) permit that expired June 30, and the Department of Natural Resources granted the group a 30-day ex

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