Editor:
After reading last week’s letter from Darlene Tymo about the decision by the SCRD board to use Chapman water for the Sechelt ice rink (“Ice install the wrong decision”), I think that the board has taken leave of its senses.
I am appalled and utterly disgusted by this irresponsible, insensitive and tone-deaf decision.
We are still under Stage 4 restrictions so how can this board possibly justify this decision, which benefits a small minority while the majority of us are doing our best to minimize our use of water.
If the figure of almost 120,000 l/week is correct, then one day’s amount at that rate would last my wife and me more than 200 days as our consumption is well below 100l/day.
We are very careful about recycling grey water and use other ways of reducing consumption – all for the common good.
Why should we bother when the SCRD board wantonly flouts the draconian rules it imposes upon us?
Hardly a stellar start to their stewardship.
Buzz Bennett, Elphinstone
