There are no compelling reasons that Torrington needs an expensive SEWER PROJECT passed by referendum recently.<\/p>\n

Replacing pipes, adding a tank, and upgrading the electrical from the last project 30 years ago would not cost over $51 million.\u00a0 If, perhaps, you believe this project will help the environment, please investigate further.\u00a0 This project seems designed to enrich consultants and Licensed Environmental Professionals and this project will not help the environment.<\/p>\n

We all have stories of our systems gone amuck.\u00a0 We love America and notice so many things about our society that just don\u2019t work, too many laws, and laws that don\u2019t do what they are intended to do.\u00a0 The environmental laws Torrington cites as one of the reasons for the sewer upgrade are a good example..\u00a0 Very rarely can we do anything about our broken systems, but in this case we can send a clear message everywhere: Too much money and no environmental benefit.<\/p>\n

Simply put, reducing nitrogen and phosphorus levels (ammonia) from the Torrington area watershed into the Naugatuck River according to the goals expressed by the Federal EPA have no environmental benefit.<\/p>\n

The point of reducing ammonia from already low levels in our sewage is that it may help fish populations in Long Island Sound eventually, but there is no data to support such an assertion.\u00a0 <\/i><\/b>There has been no detectable change due to waste water since the government started collecting more than 60 years ago.<\/p>\n

Nitrogen and phosphorus are organic nutrients,\u00a0fertilizer,\u00a0and the reduced\u00a0levels we release into the river after paying so much money are equivalent to what might come from a dead tree.<\/p>\n

We all know Torrington spends $1,670,000 to clean up a 42 space parking lot but that is only half the story.\u00a0 We need to know who gets that money. I bet a large portion of our money goes to testing and consultation <\/i><\/b>and a smaller portion goes to labor and materials.\u00a0 It seems to me the more we pay for administration the harder it is to find out where the money goes. We know that the sewer project earmarks $17 million or more for administration.<\/p>\n

Property in Torrington designated by DEEP, as an \u201cestablishment\u201d\u00a0 will cost about $100,000 to prove that it DOES NOT need to be cleaned, and much more if it does need cleanup.\u00a0 <\/b>The money goes to testing, consultation, administration and forms preparation to Licensed Environmental Professional firms called LEPs, not the government.\u00a0 In many cases there is no appeals process and very little government oversight.\u00a0 If cleanup is necessary then all those who deal with the \u201dhazardous waste\u201d must be specially trained even though no one touches anything with their hands, and the levels of contaminant are extremely low.\u00a0 Disposing of \u201chazardous waste\u201d can be nearly impossible.<\/p>\n

Again, we all know the system is broken but this time\u00a0we can\u00a0do something.\u00a0 Vote against an expensive, superfluous and\u00a0silly sewer project.\u00a0 Maybe we need a new tank and to update the electrical but our population has hardly grown since the last sewer project in 1968.\u00a0 I have talked to all of the elected officials in Torrington and no one has offered any substantive response. Please tell me where I am wrong, investigate for your self, or just vote against this expensive and unnecessary sewer project.<\/p>\n

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