{"id":2391,"date":"2011-02-18T08:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/uncontrolled-growth-and-water-problems.html"},"modified":"2011-02-18T08:39:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:39:49","slug":"uncontrolled-growth-and-water-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/uncontrolled-growth-and-water-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"Uncontrolled growth and water problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\n\nDaniel Mayer, November 2006<\/a>\n<\/small>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\nMaybe growth, growth, growth alone\nisn’t any better than jobs, jobs jobs alone,<\/a>\nand water remains one of the main issues.\nKay Harris wrote in the VDT 17 Feb 2011 that\n\nAging infrastructure, growth, and other issues contribute to city\u2019s sewer woes<\/a>:\n
\nValdosta Utilities Director Henry …\nHicks addressed the sewage spills, saying they are caused by excess rain\nwhich overloads the Withlacoochee River Water Pollution Control Plant. He\nsaid growth along the river and throughout the regional watershed area\nhas contributed to the amount of excess water running into the river.\n

\n\u201cWhen you have all this growth and you create more impervious surface\narea (through paving and development), more and more water is running into\nthe Withlacoochee. On average, the plant handles six million gallons a\nday and is equipped to accommodate twice that, but in recent rain events,\nwe\u2019ve gotten upwards of 15 million gallons extra in stormwater runoff\nand the system can\u2019t handle that,\u201d Hicks said.\n<\/blockquote>\nSome of the comments on the VDT page are also interesting.\nGuest remarked:\n\n\n

\nSo let me get this right. After years and years of pandering to\ndevelopers, Annexing county property, and building miles of underground\nwater systems, the city has neglected to upgrade the old systems. Sounds\nlike a tax increase in out future. This City and County are being\nconstructively robbed by the developers in local government and the\nindustrial authority. If your business model depends on growth, you have\nalready failed.\n<\/blockquote>\nSam said:\n
\nThis isn’t new. It is just new people giving the same old reasons and\nanswers. All of us who have been around a while know that the treatment\nplant has been dumping sewage into the river for 40 years or even longer.\n<\/blockquote>\nThis reminds me of\nBen Copeland’s points about growth and water.<\/a>\nHow much growth do we want?\nAnd how about we grow in a more sustainable way?\n

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