Pueblog USa
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Conduit IV
We can do better.
According to the Pueblo Chieftain...
The conduit originally was envisioned in the federal legislation that created the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. It was seen as a way of bringing relatively clean water out of Pueblo Reservoir to the communities along the Arkansas River east of Pueblo.
However, the conduit ‘originally was envisioned’ back in the 1960s. This was before Colorado Springs started dumping raw sewage into the Fountain. Or, at least, before it became widely know they were doing such, as far as I can tell.
The point I’m trying to make is that if all the cities were to do the right thing in the first place—dump clean water back into their water sources after use—this conduit would not be necessary. Every town would get good wtare in the first place. Not what would be considered an open sewer by any reasonably prudent individual.
Tell Colorado Springs to clean up it’s act. And we should be sure that our act is clean too.