Project expensive and ill-advised

Heartfelt thanks to Snohomish City council members Susan Palmer and Chris Lundvall. At the June 4 council meeting, their fellow members propelled the city further down the slippery slope to add new sewer service to their inadequate treatment plant. Never mind that Department of Ecology records show violations at the plant and pollution at the river.

Never mind that there is a threatened environmental lawsuit against Snohomish by the Puget Soundkeepers Alliance.

Palmer and Lundvall voted against a motion to condemn the land of their neighbors in the county for a city sewer project.

Influenced by the promptings of a few land speculators, their fellow council members recited their ill-conceived plan to borrow millions, try to condemn lands the length of their proposed Cemetery Creek Sewer Trunk, and then saddle their utility customers with new rates in the hopes that they can somehow repay the millions so badly spent in trying to bring the wastewater treatment plant up to snuff. Instead of the wishful thinking of adding future customers to an already overburdened treatment plant, why doesn’t the city have a meaningful plan to address the present egregious sewer system problems?

The folks affected by the proposed condemnations and constructions (all of whom are outside of city limits, by the way), are stirred to even greater animosity toward the Cemetery Creek Sewer Project now and ask the city leaders to reconsider. Listen to the wisdom of Mr. Lundvall, who has served the city since 1989, both as a council member and as a planning commissioner. Listen when he asked how can the city utility customers possibly bear the burden of skyrocketing rates to try to repay this tremendously expensive, ill-advised sewer project.

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