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In a quietly, lawyerly way, the issue of the Town of La Conner’s replacing its broken water main with a 16-inch pipe heated up last week. Mayor Ramon Hayes, in his March 13 report to Town Council, informed them that “Shelter Bay put it in writing: ‘we plan to leave the system in three to five years.’“

Hayes said his response was clear: “That will be a violation of the contract with the Town of La Conner. The contract is in perpetuity.” He explained that term was put in the 2011 Water Agreement at Shelter Bay’s request. “Termination is to be mutually based,” he told Council. The contract can be...