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Sewer Smackdown

Did anyone read the dueling op ed pieces in the Inky today?

I think it's kind of funny that Whitey was able to explain the whole sewer act in around 700 words and make it sound pretty reasonable and intelligent while Nancy went on to bash the thing saying it was hard to explain and without goals and objectives and her bloated prose had to run onto the next page.

She gained a reputation of being difficult and antagonistic when she chaired the Sewer Advisory Committee and now that the Board has asked Town Counsel to create a sewer act based on the goals voted upon by the SAC, she turns around and pees on it.

The thing I think is most disingenuous is the fact that Nancy claims that people are using hyperbole and untruths to scare people into voting yes (citing, "We may have to run a sewer out to great point if Town Meeting says so.") and then she turns around and quotes an bigger untruth: "It's all a plot to control growth by regulating sewers!"

Growth will happen whether we regulate sewers or not. But unregulated sewers in the control of the state DEP and a unified group of neighbors at atm means a haphazard and unpredictable system and equally hard to nail down costs.

Please read both op eds and see if you don't agree.

Heady stuff.