If you watched the Cascade City Council meeting last night, you saw me get up at an agenda item entitled "Resolution on Acquisition of Development for Outdoor Recreation" and say, "Whoa!"
"You guys have allocated $20,000 to economic development, let bids for the tennis courts, and authorized how much bonding for the swimming pool?"
"Two million dollars."
"All while there are people in this town who are not getting potable water--sometimes it's so foul, you can't wash clothes in it either. What plans have you made to replace these 100-year-old lines?"
Mayor Staner maintained there was only one line in town that was like that, but other city workers tell a different tale--there are plenty of old lines on the west side that need replacing too.
When I subsequently asked how much water was wasted in flushing these lines nobody knew exactly, but spring and fall when the whole system is flushed, that's 150,000 gallons. Right down the river. Tainted water because, it is full of ammonia to begin with and they put chlorine and fluoride in it and a poly-something or other to make (or keep) impurities from adhering to the walls of the lines.
The mayor insists the water is perfectly safe and certainly meets DNR standards, but at a previous meeting council allocated $13,500 to study whether we should spend two million bucks for a new reverse osmosis system.
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