Comments on: EPA Tells DeKalb To Clean Up Its Act

By: Ed Macie

Ed Macie — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:55:12 +0000

I sincerely hope Dekalb County considers green infrastructure alternatives to simply engineering their way out of sewer overflow problems.

By: Deanne

Deanne — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:07:48 +0000

Good article in this week’s CrossRoadsNews that points out the County needs to re-do projections on future growth impact (calculated 10 yrs ago):

http://crossroadsnews.com/view/full_story/10613218/article-Commissioners-set-to-vote-on–1-4-billion-water-plan?instance=lead_story

By: karass

karass — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:24:07 +0000

I need clarification. A water main is clean water heading towards faucets, right? So what happened near Glennwood/Parkhill and at the RR tracks was clean water spill, right? But the pipes bursting at Second Avenue was dirty water, right?

Just wondering how yucked out to be.

Some things like sewage and roads and disease control are just plain “the common good” and worth the taxes IMHHLO (in my humble, hopelessly liberal opinion). We all suffer, rich and poor, industrious and lazy, if the water is bad, the air smells, goods and people can’t move freely, and plague or cholera are rampant. (But I do admit that HOW one serves the common good with taxes is unfortunately way too variable.)