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Here are some of the questions others and Clean Rivers are asking:

1. Why has the moratorium continued since April of 2004?

1. Why build a sewer plant when land is available?

1. Why build a sewer plant when the regional facility could make the SSWD plant obsolete?

1. Why build a sewer plant when the regional facility will be built and the land used for land application can be sold and rebated back to the district members?

1. Why would the members of the district support a LID for a plant vs. land application when the last time the members were polled they were willing to pay more for land application?

1. Why build a sewer discharge plant when the district was originally formed to prevent septic drainage from going into the lake and river from non-existent or leaking septic systems?

1. Why build a sewer plant when the district members, citizens of the county, the Lakes Commission and the EPA said no when it was last suggested?

1. Why build a sewer plant when there is more people living here and specifically on the water than last time it was proposed? Wouldn’t there be more opposition now with communities like Dover Bay touting the beauty of being on the water? With more growth, it would be reasonable to expect there are more people down stream using the river for drinking water, why would they want “sewer water” in the river?

1. Is there a conflict of interest with the same engineering firm advising SSWD board as to what are the best options then designing, supervising the construction and maintenance of the possible sewer plant? The engineering firm’s payment is in the order of 20% of cost of construction for managing construction. With land application and other technologies being less expensive and/or out of the engineering firm’s expertise, the possible conflict of interest might be perceived as a problem.

1. Why was this Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) reconstituted to advise the SSWD board when the only option proposed by the board is building a sewer plant? How much did that meeting cost the members of SSWD?

1. Why is the board of SSWD considering spending the members’ money to hire a PR firm to counter the public’s concern about discharging into the river? Why is the board is discussing “infiltrating Clean Rivers” to discern their plans?

1. Who stands to benefit more from a sewer plant being built – the members of the district or future commercial developers down the 95 corridor?

1. With the recent discharge of raw sewer into the Pend d’Oreille, do we want another plant to discharge raw sewer in the middle of the summer into the river?