At the May 17 CWLP public forum, Mayor Langfelder said the proposed Hunter Lake II is more about economic development than need for more water in a severe drought. He may have revealed an inconvenient truth to the Army Corps Of Engineers and U.S. EPA, who must grant the permits to build it.
Ward 7 Alderman McMenamin, at the June 7 council meeting, reported the latest (2015) forecast of treated water use is 25 million gallons per day by the year 2065, about five decades from now. Actual treated water use has averaged between 20 and 23 million gallons per day over the last four decades since 1975. The projected increase is barely 10 percent more.
The Corps’ 2000 final Environmental Impact Statement projected treated water not accounted for (leakage, thefts?) would average 2 1/2 million gallons per day. How much unaccounted treated water was there actually in 2015? Still 10 percent daily?
Waste not, need not!
Donald Davis
Pleasant Plains
Joe McMenamin for Ward 7 