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Drinking and writing
As I write, I’m sipping on a 0% proof, right-out-of-the-pipe Hogan’s Corner water. Tastes good to me. But why take my word for it? Drive over to the 76 station, where last week they switched from a private well to the county/Hogan’s Corner water, and ask for a sample. (Kathy over there said it would be OK.) And then report back, please!
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i completely agree this towns water smells horrible tastes horrible and isn’t safe to drink i don’t think i don’t even give my dog that water.
There is one question that nags at me. Through all of the meetings I attended the county alway proposed that it could supply SOME of Ocean Shores water. Do we now believe that the county has the immediate capacity to supply all of Ocean Shores water needs, now and in the future?
Welcome to The Stepford of the Northwest. As long as you drink the water, you will want to keep paying more and more taxes to improve it. You will need to hire more and more people to convince you that there is a solution, if you only spend a little more. Then you can speed down the streets like the water out of the tap. Oh, did we warn you about those little globs of stuff in the water? They are like the now smooth, yet no wider, roads with drops of soft gravel waiting to catch your tire and throw you into the ditch. However, the water will make you feel no pain. If you do experience pain, then the EMS service will give you more water until it all appears to be a bad dream.
Obviously you must be mistaken Tom!
If this were true, why would the great City of Ocean Shores be spending MILLIONS of dollars setting up a complicated and high maintenance water treatment plant?
Hmmm, let’s weigh the options:
1) Using the water under Ocean Shores:
a) take crappy water, add a bunch of chemicals, take a bunch of stuff out, add some more stuff and presto chango, you have crappy water blended with lots of stuff.
b) the above process is expensive to set up and maintenance expenses will be off the charts.
2) Tap into Grays Harbor County water at Hogan’s Corner:
a) take clean sweet water, add a few required chemicals and we are off and running.
b) connecting to it will cost some money but far less than option #1. Maintenance will be far less expensive.
The only advantages I can see to option #1 is our administration is still in total control of the entire process. Since total control is the military way I see how fantastic a solution this is, not for the citizens of Ocean Shores of course, but overall for our management team.
All we need to do is lay off a few more people and maybe raise taxes just a little bit more and we will be close. Then we can lay off a few more people and we’ll be fine, at least until they figure out something else we must have.
I think another roundabout or two would be really cool!!
For those of you who may not detect sarcasm in my comments, please move to Westport.