Yadkin County leaders had a good idea, wrote Chad Adams in a commentary published this week on MountainXpress.com, a news, arts and information web site serving Asheville and western North Carolina. Unfortunately, bureaucratic red tape from the feds kept Yadkin’s intentions from becoming reality. The story revolves around a federal grant the county received to extend a water line along Highway 601 from Yadkinville to Courtney. Turns out the state DOT was going to be working on the highway so the two government entities agreed to work together to do everything at once and save an estimated $150,000 to $300,000. That’s when the federal granting agency – the U.S. Economic Development Administration – stepped in to say DOT couldn’t oversee the project even though it was willing. Yadkin officials are to be commended for trying, Adams wrote.