Issue: Song Mountain Snow Making Well

"The one key point that Pat made was that if Song tried to use the well the town could and would get an injunction that would stop it quickly, in a day or two. This was discussed at length because I was concerned, as you can see by my letter below, that once the well was connected it would be used without the precautions. Pat assured all of us that Song could not use the well and that the injunction would stop it. He said that this was, in effect, a stop work order. Pat also seemed to suggest that once Song came back with their final plans the public would have a chance to look at and comment before they were put in place."

Song hasn't come back with any plan that I remember but then again my memory isn't what it used to be. I did a search on this site and nothing after the above dated article from 12/6/01! Is Song trying to pull a fast one? Yes, of course they are, this is Peter Harris after all and that is one guy I know like the back of my hand. I'll have more about him and his foibles later. For now read the above article and wonder why the town is doing nothing about it.

SONG MOUNTAIN WELL TO BE POWERED!

Fri Jun 06, 12:04:22 PM
From Supervisor Betty Pitman: She looked at the Song Mountain Resolution and there was nothing in there about hooking power up to the well. She talked to Peter Harris (partner and manager at Song Mountain) and he said he was going to install the two monitoring wells and was only hooking up power and was not going to use the well. I'm sure we can all trust Peter Harris to do exactly what he says, after all hasn't he proven his word is good in the... wait... I'm thinking of someone else... never mind.

Comment: The reason they are doing this now is to get us worked up and worn out before winter. It's June, six months from now Song will be starting their money season. That gives us more than enough time for calm and deliberate preparations to end this ongoing problem... once and for all! It's also an election year for the town board and we should put our effort into getting good people elected to prevent future problems. Let's first concentrate on the elections, they are usually in August and are called 'caucuses' and then we will have plenty of time to take care of the Song problem after that.

Hint: Put the word caucus in the search box on the left to read all about past elections/caucuses in Preble. (Also try Sort By Date once on the search page. Or just Click for caucus search results by date