From: Tom Cetola [mailto:tcetola@beachin.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:54 PM
To: Virgil Shockley; Louise Gulyas; Judith E. Boggs; John E. Bloxom; James Church; Gerald T. Mason
Cc: Tom Sandusky; Susan Canfora; Sandy Coyman; Roseann Bridgman; Rick Wells; Purnell, John; Linda M. Hess; Marty Pusey; Larry/Pat Schrawder; Larry Devlin; Kelly Shannahan; John Tustin; John Ross; Edward Tudor; Directors; Dave Ferguson; Dart Way; Carolyn Cummings; Bud Rogner; Bob Mitchell
Subject: Joe Reynolds STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL I realize that there are many people copied under the e-mail and confidentiality of this size group is next to impossible. But here goes!!!! Remember who Joe Reynolds is and he is opposed to any expansion of the wastewater treatment facility even the expansion from 1,500,000 to 2, 335,000 gallons per day. The plant happens to be physically located on the St. Martin River behind Marina Village. It is the site selected by Boise - Cascade because they believed it would be best placed for the facility, but the most important fact is THEY OWNED THE LAND AND SITE. Read his prior positions on the massive expansion for new development. The growth that could possibly occur over the next 10, 20 or even 30 years is well above the available land and just imagine what the area would look like. But Mr. Reynolds will try any means he believes will make people accept and believe his position, even thought the facility belongs to Worcester County and not him or any other group of people. End Cetola email************************* Begin What prompted Cetola Email ************************* Message Post by Joe Reynolds 12/28/2004 The issue of hooking up new developments to the OP sewer plant is only the first salvo in efforts to maximize development in the north end of the county without adequate concern or planning for what comes with development. The goal is clearly to utilize a potential 3.0 mgd capacity at the OP plant. Tom Cetola has made this clear. This means about 2000 more EDUs coming into the plant above what is required for OP. Potentially, such a plant could handle up to 15,000 EDUs and still comply with the discharge permit. Remember, the discharge permit is NOT based on 250 gallons per day per EDU – a crucial distinction. The 250 is for DESIGN purposes. Once the plant is operational it can handle as many EDUs as the county can hook up and still stay below the total gallons permitted for discharge. Presently the PEAK FLOW average per day per EDU is only at 187 – and that was for the last 4th of July weekend. A 3.0 mgd discharge permit with an average of 200 gpd per EDU during the highest flows of the year would allow hooking up 15,000 EDUs and still complying with the discharge permit. The board letter suggested placing the Pennington Commons spray acreage in an escrow. That land and any other easements, etc. required for a spray irrigation operation should be assigned ownership to the county. Otherwise, in the future if the state should require conversion to spray irrigation (not an impossibility) the county would have to purchase adequate lands and those costs would be paid by all rate payers. Below find a link to a video of presentation made by Ed Ellis. Whether one agrees with his views or not, it should be watched and considered by board members. What the county does now is going to impact what this area is like over the next 10 to 20 years. The OPA board should be more involved in my view. Ed Ellis on Development
Former Worcester County Planning chief discusses development in county. 9/16/2004. Here’s a q&a video following the presentation.
Ed Ellis Q & A
A most interesting Q & A session following Ed Ellis's presentation at Snow Hill Library. 9/16/2004.
Here's what another forum member, BillZ, had to say about Tom Cetola's "strictly confidential" email:
Thank you for posting a message from an elected official to a group of what I must assume are voters. Since I am also a voter, though not on the Commissioners "A" list, I am very happy to come to understand the Commissioners tactics. By responding to publicly stated position by one voter through a secret email to other selected respondents, it shows me that this public official doesn't like to deal in the "sunshine." This indicates to me that it is Mr. Cetola who "will try any means he believes will make people accept and believe his position."
Mr. Cetola makes one very telling statement, "even thought the facility belongs to Worcester County and not him or any other group of people." This statement tells me that he does not understand one very important fact that every elected official should have indelible imprinted on their forehead. The government belongs to the people. The treatment plant in question does indeed "belong to any other group". That group is every landowner, resident, taxpayer and voter in Worcester County. Lincoln used the phrases, "of the people, by the people and for the people." Mr. Cetola should try harder to understand that he was elected to represent all of us and it is part of his mirade of responsibilities to learn what that "other group" wants. And to represent those "wants" even if they differ from his own.
Having moved here from the fastest growing county in the nation, there are two facts I can absolutely guarantee, one, water runs downhill and two, this county will grow to the capacity of its toilets. To paraphrase a movie about baseball in a cornfield, "if you build another toilet, they will come." I have personally seen what can be accomplished in 10, 20 or 30 years by land developers who have sewer capacity in hand.
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