Let's cut to the chase…

I'm getting sick of the nitrate run around BS. I've gotten information from several sources both pro and con about the dangers of nitrate and at what levels. Great, let's have a discussion about that. That would be productive. Unfortunately that is not what is happening. What is happening are lies and cover-ups. The so called Water Protection Committee is doing all it can to cover up the cause of the high nitrates. They tested around the trailer park and found nitrates were NOT coming from the septic systems at the park. Everyone agrees that nitrates come from fertilizer, manure or septic systems. If the latter is eliminated, as it is in this case, then the nitrates are coming from farming. There is no other choice! Yet this doesn't deter Amanda Barber from claiming that she does not know the source of the nitrates and she wants to study it more. This is clearly a lie and a cover up. She and her committee have lost all credibility with the community and for very good cause. If you claim to be the prime factor for studying a situation and you are found to continuously lie about it then no one will believe your findings. She lies! The committee lies! All those who participate in this charade are lying! There can be no other conclusion. I hate to use the word "lie" because it infers a deliberate intent to deceive, but what other word would best describe what has happened. Should I act like some bureaucrat and dance around the subject with big and meaningless words designed to confuse? No, I'll leave that to Amanda Barber, she does it well. I didn't go to the Water Protection Committee meeting, (and I despise using that erroneous phrase) because I know what they are doing (nothing and BS) so why waste my time. Barber made sure that I would be least likely to go by sending me the notice as late as possible, and apologizing for the lateness of it. Why bother going just to be lied to and deceived. I needn't waste my time for that. I say let's cut the lying and admit the cause and get on with the discussion about what levels are okay and how we are going to fix it. Short of that we are all hostage to lying deceiving government officials who do not and cannot tell the truth. Yeah, that'll work, that'll make the citizenry have faith and trust in their officials. If our elected officials do not step in and step in now and stop this lying then we are headed down a path to complete mistrust in all government and all government officials.

It's time for the county legislature to call Amanda Barber before them and see if she can talk her way out of doing nothing about this problem. Isn't that what we elected them to do?