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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Water for Chaparral Pines golf course on Payson Town Council agenda Thursday


ON THURSDAY'S PAYSON TOWN COUNCIL AGENDA:

Discussion/possible action concerning Resolution No. 2724 captioned as follows: A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF PAYSON, ARIZONA, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE UNTREATED WATER PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION AND WATER DELIVERY CONTRACT BETWEEN JOINT FACILITIES MANAGEMENT, L.L.C., THE RIM COUNTRY EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE, AND THE TOWN OF PAYSON. 

This may be our last chance to have any input on this matter.  Please e-mail me at j.keyworth@q.com if you can attend this meeting.  

Here is an editorial on the subject from a couple months ago that will bring you up to speed:

By Jim Keyworth

Gazette Blog Editor

The decision last week by the Payson Town Council to move ahead with its plan to sell water from the Blue Ridge Reservoir to Chaparral Pines golf course defies comprehension. 

We’ve said it before, but here are the highlights of our reasoning: 

This is the Southwest.  Nobody who cares about the survival of future generations would be irresponsible enough to sell precious potable water – and, yes, water from Blue Ridge is potable even if you bypass the treatment plant and pretend it’s not – to dump on a golf course. 

To guarantee said water supply to the Chaparral Pines golf course for 49 years in the middle of a drought compounds the council's irresponsibility. 

To claim, as Payson Mayor Kenny Evans has done, that said water will be pumped back out of the ground and resold – a win-win according to Councilor Ed Blair – assumes a level of gullibility on the part of Rim Country residents that is downright insulting. 

Finally, if the Payson Town Council must dump precious water on a golf course, the least it could do is dump it on a public course accessible to all – not on a private course in a gated community. 

Postscript: And don’t forget the culpability of your Payson Roundup.  To report this story without questioning the logic and motives behind the council's decision is plain and simple bad journalism.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It won't make a difference. Kenny will do what Kenny will do. He has a pro-growth rubber stamp council that never challenges him, and a newspaper that doesn't even deserve to be called a newspaper. But thank you for giving a damn about our future water supply.

Anonymous said...

You're right. This thing will pass Thursday night, 6-0 (Councilor Ed Blair is out of town). The only consolation is that some day down the road this council will be villified for wasting water. Very sad, but once again the wealthy 1% prevails.

Anonymous said...

To: Jim Keyworth
Have you ever given out the IP address of anyone that has posted at the Rim Country Gazette Blog to anyone?

James Keyworth said...

Never.