A great deal of information came out in the news over all of this. Gloucester County Government sued it's own citizens to push through a system no one wanted back in 1988. Now the county wants more money for a system people still do not want but the county could care less what the residents want.
It's like we already pointed out, the board of supervisors have been taken over and you are dealing with a secret masonic order that knows what you need and could care less what you want.
It would make more sense to us if you are looking to argue saving the Chesapeake Bay, that more homes should have septic systems as opposed to a county sewer system. Let's look at the logic behind all of this. If you can call it logic on their part. The county sewer system is piped over to Hampton Roads across the York river. Eventually that pipe system is going to break down or break for one reason or another. Storm destruction, hit by a tanker, whatever, something will knock it out. Here is the problem. When you combine the waste of multiple households, you increase the toxicity of the waste more than twice it's level for each household added. Two households increase toxicity by a factor of at least 4 times. 10 households over 40 times. The more you add, the more toxic the waste becomes.
It's no different than chemistry class. Add chemicals together and you get new chemicals. New strains of bacteria and so much more. When the pipeline does break, the massive amount of waste that dumps into the bay area will be tremendous. The system backups that will flow back into people's houses will be massive. When that happens, who is going to pay for the cleanup? Gloucester County Government? Don't count on it. You will. Based on a system you never wanted to begin with.
With septic systems, you have containment. Gloucester County only had 3 septic systems needing attention in 2012 and they see this as a problem? The hourly bird droppings into the Bay cause more damage than 30 septic system failures would cause in a week. So who are they kidding? No one in Gloucester wanted the 22 million dollar debt note. So it's a county problem. Not a resident problem. Just stop paying the note. Default on the payments. If our federal government can do it, so can our local government.
Maybe the county could then file for a federal bailout? Maybe they can just hold a bake sale to raise the money. Have a special Masonic fun day and charge parking fees. Put parking meters on Main Street to raise money. Stop giving tax breaks to big business and let them pay their own way like everyone else has to.
Maybe we should hold a contest on how the county can raise money other than putting a gun to people's backs. Or maybe they can actually put guns to people's backs as they shop through the Gloucester Main Street Village. A sort of pay to play daily event. Fun for the whole family. They can even process your credit cards to cover the fees while holding you up.
Enough of the poking fun and once again saying Thank You to Delegate Keith Hodges. With actions like this, it looks like we have to keep you around. Not a bad idea in our opinion.
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