Editor:
Beside my house is a raging creek leaking out millions of gallons of fresh drinking water. SCRD is so concerned with leaks, why is this not considered a catastrophic rupture in the system? Clearly they prefer to guilt the taxpayer into submission with water meters and the usual alarmism.
SCRD and shíshálh Nation have decided to reallocate $100,000 away from surface water research, insinuating stewardship and dragging reconciliation into the mix. Mayor Henderson is a common sense guy, who knows that payday is on Friday and water runs downhill.
It’s not difficult to fix the water issue when you’re fortunate enough to have Edwards and Chapman Lakes. Geoff Craig’s letter to the editor, Oct. 2021. “When the Park was created it was expected that the works in place could be upgraded in the future. BC Parks has allowed a private company to build a gondola in a Squamish Park but not our Local Gov’t to bring adequate water to Coast residents.”
Hundreds of thousands of dollars to install and remove the siphons. SCRD should be lobbying the Province to allow them to remain permanently instead of accepting their response to “find another way”. It’s unacceptable to force us to find another way when we have enough water already.
We don’t have a crisis of water, obviously, we have a crisis of ideology. What’s required is some honesty and transparency about what’s really going on at the SCRD. Reinstate the Mayor and get back to the business of fixing our water storage issue before next summer.
Marg Atherton
Sechelt
