Kalispell water contamination Public Comment from Eric SchaefferDear city council president and members,
What I’ve gathered from the website material via the links, it seems the solution is to “pay” your way out of trouble by purchasing water from businesses or buy a reverse osmosis filtration
machine to lower/eliminate the risk of this contamination.
I have lived in the Flathead County for 32 years and I’ve never seen such a blatant disregard for the citizens of our area.
Maybe the fact that all the cities were allowed an overzealous amount of building permits and new residences/apartments to be built without the implementation of proper filtration stations
to take on the new volume of people moving into the valley.
If we didn’t have the burden of so many new developments and housing, maybe we could have isolated, purified, or replaced the two wells without impacting the city too drastically.
The fact you believe informing struggling families to buy water or a system that can help reduce the risk of dangerous levels of exposure, without any financial assistance on your end,
is apparent that you don’t feel the financial strain your decisions have impacted most residences that are trying to just get by. Not everyone moved here with remote jobs or annual
incomes of over $24,000.00 to budget for your “solution” to this disaster.
A relief or assistance program that actually helps the people instead of information should be implemented. It’s the least you all can do since we are paying for the negligence and lack
of initiative on your end.
I hope you all can consider this as an extreme concern instead of thinking about yourselves and if you’re taken care of in terms of this crisis.
Sincerely,
A concerned citizen of Kalispell, MT