Politicians never cease to amaze me

Editor:

Community Water Company of Green Valley is striving to do something about the over-utilization of our aquifer in the Green Valley area by extending the water line, carrying Colorado River water, from Pima Road into the Green Valley area, to replenish our aquifer at no cost to our local residences.

This line is to be paid for by a mining company, which is proposing to mine copper in the Santa Rita Mountains.

There supposedly are no strings attached to this proposed water line by the mining company other than perhaps good publicity.

The Pima County supervisors and administrator are trying to block this offer by politicizing it since they are vehemently opposed to any mining in the Santa Rita Mountains.

I will list the people who are serving on the board of directors of the Community Water Co., who are volunteering their time without any remuneration and ask ... who would you rather have running the Community Water Co. and looking after our interests, the volunteers or the paid politicians who are serving as Pima County supervisors?

There is an old statement that says, and I quote, “You get what you pay for.” In the case of the Pima County supervisors, I question the validity of this statement.

The board members of the Community Water Co. and their qualifications are as follows: Kenneth Taylor, Brigadier General, USAF, retired. Warren Engelland, vice president, Cargill, Inc., retired. Virgil Davis, director, Electronic Programs, University Research Foundation, retired. Roy Erichsen, CEO & president, H.G.E. Enc. Engineers and Planner, retired. Robert Lemke, director and vice president of Mfg., Peck, Inc., retired. John McCandles, Lt. Col., USMC, retired. Roger Rogge, manager of operations, Ford Forestry Center, Michigan Technological University, retired. Don Singleton, Staff Engineer, IBM Development Laboratory, retired.

I will grant you that I don’t know many of the board members personally, but when I consider their backgrounds, I feel very comfortable that the Community Water Co. is in very capable hands.

Frankly, I am very proud of this board trying to extend the CAP water line into our area. In my opinion many of the problems with water in Pima County are created by the indiscriminate rezoning, by the county supervisors from low-density housing to high-density housing without any consideration of a sustainable water source or much land planning. Perhaps the county supervisors would be better off improving these areas under their jurisdiction than interfering with a local effort.

In my opinion, we are very fortunate in Green Valley to have people looking to the future such as the Community Water Co.and Nancy Freeman to whom we all owe a debt of thanks.

Charles T. (Tom) Brown, Green Valley