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Letter: WLSSD has run out
of excuses

Duluth News Tribune - 8/10

I see the paper reporting yet another overflow incident at the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District sewage treatment facility. Enough already!

What's the problem out there? If they were a factory who dumped "millions of gallons" of pollutants into the river/bay/lake, do you think we would all be looking the other way?

And what do we hear from Executive Director Kurt Soderberg? "This is a big blow to us, considering all the work that we've done to keep this from happening."

A blow to you? Hey Kurt, I don't know about you, but I prefer my drinking water sans the secondhand Charmin.

Oops, we did it again ain't cuttin' it.

Blame it on residential rain runoff (which, by the way, I thought you guys were addressing), or the power went out and the backup failed. Boy.

I'm sure glad WLSSD doesn't run the hospital. Hate to have my oxygen cut off in the middle of the operation.

Look, I'm no engineer, and I realize that money is tight, but this is, pure (or not so pure) and simply unacceptable. Fix it.

Brain Rapp,
Duluth

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