Editor's Notes
- We are happy to see the CEO of Suffolk County Water Authority
is responding to SaveCutchogue.com
The Cutchogue Group regrets that SCWA’s response fails to address
the proposed Heritage at Cutchogue.
If the public water infrastructure map was really
a “comprehensive” planning tool it would be integrated
with a sewerage map. Although the SCWA strongly urges
the Town of Southold to adopt methods to reduce the potential
of degraded
water
from recharging to the aquifer, SCWA is poised to deliver more
than 20,000 gallons per day to new customers on top of the Cutchogue
Flow System section of the shallow North Fork glacial aquifer.
Rather than be defensive, condescending and blaming the public,
why
can’t
SCWA serve the public by publicizing quantitative and
qualitative limitations of natural sources of water supply
in Southold?
In an ironic twist, Stephen M. Jones writes that SCWA is not
planning a "nefarious scheme to bring water in "to
support new residential developments"". Nefarious
is being used to mean extremely wicked, not infamous. In recent
Town Board
meetings none of the six Southold Town Board members were
aware that SCWA is pumping water from Riverhead into Southold.
With all due respect, the “peak
water flow rate for existing customers in the Town of Southold” is
not just a “simple fact” (was it a wet
or a dry year?). If as SCWA claims people in Southold are
wasting water, can’t SCWA do something to control the abuse of our public water
supply? For example how has SCWA publicized the dramatic increase in
the peak water flow rate for existing customers in the Town of Southold?
Please visit the Suffolk County Water Authority website www.scwa.com and
judge for yourself. Does SCWA operate
with the public benefit as its first priority? Do you agree
that information
in the form of an animated cartoon
and of technical statistical reports are effective methods
to inform the public of important information about public water
supply?
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