McCook obsolete?

Dear Editor,

I agree with Bill Donze on the issue of the water rate going up, I still don't understand why the airfield had been bought to put a water system there. Didn't anyone think about the leakage of the fuel from the airplanes that landed there?

Did no one think about the fuel not being a good idea to be mixed into our drinking water? I may not be the smartest person there is, but I know you don't put a water treatment system in the same place where planes landed and oil, and fuel leaked out like they are going to do.

I don't understand why the taxpayers have to pay for this mistake. Bill is right, a lot of people don't make $45,000 a year. We don't have that kind of industry here. Most people who don't make $45,000 a year are the people who work in restaurants, stores, motels, nursing homes, and such.

If the people who make $45,000 a years want to pay that rise in the water hike, let them, but me myself, and others like me, don't like this, and so many have considered moving or moving out of McCook for this reason, if things keep getting higher because of poor choices being made for (all) the citizens of McCook. McCook could and will be obsolete. Is that really what we want? Something to think about!

Cheryl Larreau

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