Decisions about water are oddly complex, balancing private and public interests. Understanding hydrology helps resolve some of that complexity. This is an informational piece on groundwater, streams, riparian trees, and us to help make our decisions more reasonable.
If the residents and Village of Williamsburg Trustees are not critically evaluating what their under-contract engineers are proposing, if they are just going along, the engineering firm will seek to maximize its profits instead of saving residents money, which appears to be the case.
T or C and the Village of Williamsburg could use storm water to green up, but dump
it, polluted, into the river. We pay nearly $9 per 1,000 gallons to pump and treat sewer water into "effluent" that waters the golf course and parks. It's cheaper to intercept storm water.
Do you think T or C and Williamsburg polycart customers should pay more so rich new homeowners at the Turtleback Mountain Resort can pay less to have their trash hauled and recycle for free? An expansion of the T or C collection center is proposed to accommodate them.
The city must cram capital projects over a few years that should be spread over 20 or so. Must, because the city is leaking 57 percent of the water it produces in warm months. Must, because the city was under an order by the NMED to fix the sewer.
The City of T or C is considering how much to increase water and sewer rates and T or C City Manager Gary Whitehead came to the Village of Williamsburg April 9 Trustee meeting to explain what effect such increases could have on Villagers. It’s complicated, because the Village owns…
Spaceport leery of revealing reasons about road closures during tests of Quarterhorse drone == the first major defense contractor for the headquarters for civilian space exploration.
Those of you who care about healthcare, vaccinations, the MAHA movement, what is happening in America today to the government and its actions know that last year the American Academy of Pediatrics sued Robert Kennedy, Jr., for changing the government’s recommendations about vaccinations. I analyze the case here.
Conformance to the Government Conduct Act is largely dependent on government officials self-reporting or checking each other. Or city contractors not offering emoluments and/or rebuffing importuning government officials' requests for employment or kick-backs. The press has a duty to expose a lack of reporting conflicts of interest.
What the city looks like and how well its physical assets serve us is largely decided by the ICIP process, which badly needs the public's goad to improve that process, in the form of public critical thinking, questioning and input.
Grants, if they come through, may avert the need to impose higher rates. The city already increases wastewater rates by 5 percent and water rates by the amount of the Consumer Price Index every year in July. Even greater increases may not be needed.
Are you alarmed by rate increases in your city bill? Wait until you see the new ones proposed.