Ideas We Have
In Salmon, Idaho, $26,823 is the median income, with 19.5% of the population below the poverty line, including 28.3% of those under age 18 and 14.3% of those age 65 or over.
With Recovery
Funds and other grants and
loans available to small cities, we live with a city council,
who finds it appropriate to just increase our waste-water tax.
Instead of finding help with the expense from other sources,
instead of finding the most sensible solution to the waste-water
system, the council read this tax-increase ordinance for the first
time, last Wednesday (December 23).
The Environmental
Protection Agency has
many documents showing free-water surface wetlands the best
value for small towns, where land is available.
The city council chose
Keller Associates,
from Idaho Falls, to propose a solution. No wetland solutions are in
Idaho.
Wetland solutions are in South
Dakota, where it is
even colder. Apparently
that firm did not examine the EPA documents about small town
waste-water systems, which are generally
2-8 times less expensive than the conventional treatment plant
we have.
If you think
a $35
increase for waste-water is unreasonable, you may want to tell the
council to cease and desist on their waste-water tax increase, until
they do an adequate evaluation of the problem.