AN UNNECESSARY INVESTMENT (3)

The people and big machines have finished the work that will affect our property. But they are far from completing the whole job. According to the engineer in charge, the 16 or so households involved (I originally thought the project covered just our street, but it affects some other isolated houses as well) require more than 5km of piping. Plus there is a pumping station in the wood, manholes, and various other stuff.

But perhaps the worse thing is that it is not needed. I talked to my neighbour this morning, who is an engineer. He told me that the existing septic tanks (where the eventual run-off goes into the wood) cleans to about 94% pure water. Connecting us to the public system doesn't make the water 100% pure, it merely raises it to about 97% pure. That's a very expensive, and unnecessary, 3% improvement.

Walter Blotscher