Dear Goforth Board Members, staff and council:
Thank you for making the effort to move your board meeting to a location that would accommodate those of us who wished to address you. Thank you for your attention while we spoke and for the individual expressions of goodwill after the meeting.
I believe every one of us has been conned at some point in our lives, has wanted something to be true so badly that we ignored our instincts that ‘it was too good to be true’. And I am sorry that you find yourselves in that position relative to Electro Purification. Their 3 man company reminds me of my favorite movie – The Music Man – though without the happy ending.
To believe their paid hydrogeologist who waltzed into Hays County (after being run out of Austin and Walker Counties) and told you that contrary to all the hydrogeology reports of the State, of the Groundwater Districts and of Hays Commissioners Court, of the very evidence of diminished springs and wells already stressed, that in fact there is plenty of water than you could ever use up, enough water to satisfy your current customers and to build out in unlimited fashion in perpetuity.
Well, that would seem like remarkable news. Not something you would want to hide from scrutiny for four years, but trumpet on the front page of every local newspaper.
I think you’ve been had. And I think you know you’ve been had. And I suggest that before you waste another dime of your ratepayers money fighting inevitable legislation, you use your very able law counsel to break that fraudulent contract and help us send EP scurrying out of Hays County. Hopefully with enough publicity that they won’t be able to work their ‘magic water’ on anyone else.
And then all of us who love this area can begin to work within the very finite, realistic natural resources we still have. We can begin to do county wide planning based on what our area can actually support – the whole area. We are not condemned to destroy Hays County for the benefit of a few developers and a handful of cash for a couple of landowners. We who live here and love this area have the right to protect our rivers, springs, open spaces, neighborhoods and communities.
This planet is not an ATM machine - it is a living breathing ecosystem which we humans far too often take for granted. Now it is time to protect it, so it can continue to nourish and sustain all us.
Thank you,
Nancy Weaver
Rolling Oaks
