Submitted by: Fred Hashimoto
The project is touted as simple and straight-forward, but significant questions exist. From a public health viewpoint, it has yet to be proven necessary. This $106 million project has many funding issues including personal costs that can exceed $20,000 per household and strict mandates for that. In addition, a mentioned $20 million low interest loan means that up to $100,000 of interest and $1 million in principle will need to be covered annually.
Groundwater protection is vitally important, but a possible Village-wide threat to that was not demonstrated in the recent Stantec Preliminary Engineering Report. Historically, bacterial contamination was documented at the Corrales Elementary School, the recreation center and the municipal complex, sites that can have more than 400 users over many consecutive hours. Monthly testing over the last six years has not shown contamination at these sites which have been connected to a wastewater pipe down Corrales Road…