INC NEWS - Summary of First DWQ Public Hearing

[RW Pickle]

What we're going to be seeing sometime down the road is a $200M bond issue
for stormwater runoff protection (buffers). That's part of the 2030
unfunded mandate from the State that allows Jordan to be classified as
drinking water supply. All of the tributarys that feed the lake will be
buffered when it's said and done.

Don't know what this means? Just come down to Forest Hills Park (back out
behind the clubhouse and playground) and see what this means. The creek
here has 2 buffers; a reparian buffer and a herbacious buffer. In
buffering this creek, more than 26,000 tress were planted on the banks and
shoulders and the creek was stabalized. Some will die, but one day there
will be a huge stand of trees along the creek to help clean up the water.
It really messed up the vistas of our Park, but who can really say
something is bad if it's about clean water? We have to have it and if this
is how you get it, then so be it. The $1M it cost to buffer just this
small amount of creek was funded through the State and across City owned
property (so it all was cheaper to deal with). The buffers we as a
community will be asked to pay for will be funded by bonds and our taxes.
I guess it's not cheap to get a cleaner water supply...

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