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There can be no excuse for the officials in charge of this area's water resources to be taking as long as they have. Our water problem did not start this year. It only worsened. It's another indication of the ineptness of the local office holders that think they are only charged to bring unbridled growth to an area without providing the infrastructure to support it. Its time the developers quit running our local government. More fiscal responsibility and less I want to be like Charlotte is in order.

Sure they have. Like most committees, nothing happens on time and most likely there will be problems which will increase the cost even now. Remember, you are dealing with government so low bid will do the job and most certainly screw it up somehow and we will have to pay for someone to come in and fix the problem.

First, I'm not an engineer or hydrologist. This is my thinking. We built a dam. We knew that it was supposed to be a source of water for several communities. We knew that before the first blade of grass was disturbed. Would'nt it have made more sense to start building the water treatment plant while building the dam or waiting for the lake to fill up? That way, we could have a source of water now, rather than some time down the road. Also, considering inflation, it woould have cast lest five years ago than it will now. We now have a source of water and no way to get it to the people. As President, Harry Truman, said, "Any Missouri farm boy knows that you don't buy a farm that doesn't have a road to it." Let's build the road.

First, I'm not an engineer or hydrologist. This is my thinking. We built a dam. We knew that it was supposed to be a source of water for several communities. We knew that before the first blade of grass was disturbed. Would'nt it have made more sense to start building the water treatment plant while building the dam or waiting for the lake to fill up? That way, we could have a source of water now, rather than some time down the road. Also, considering inflation, it woould have cast lest five years ago than it will now. We now have a source of water and no way to get it to the people. As President, Harry Truman, said, "Any Missouri farm boy knows that you don't buy a farm that doesn't have a road to it." Let's build the road.

"Are the cities taking too long on Randleman Reservoir?"

Pretty easy to answer that one. Go look at Lakes Townsend or Higgins. Funny, when a city council candidate suggested Greensboro just build a pipeline to the lake and pump it to our treatment plant they were derided by this newspaper. It made a lot of sense. For that matter it could be pumped into one of the existing reservoirs and we'd never have to participate in the joint treatment plant. That would free us from the inertia that comes with having all those entities and all those egos trying to make decisions. We just pump our quota and be done.

Of course they are moving too slowly. This should have been done in the 1950's with federal money, at 10,000 acres and a recreation lake as originally envisioned. Given the current situation, the others are right -- the main reason that the plant was not done at the same time as the lake was the sheer ineptness of the local politicians.