Silence is not always golden! Citizens of Lakeport, are you aware that last April, due to heavy rains, more than 6 1/2 million gallons of treated wastewater overflowed into Clear Lake?
The City Council”s response to our inadequate sewer treatment plant is to sell the Lakeport Sewer Plant/Sprayfield and build up to 2,500 new houses (which will potentially double the population of Lakeport) and an 18-hole golf course!
This plan is moving forward under the radar, with no public notice, no environmental analysis, and no marketing study. It is being carried out by a consultant and a private developer, both of whom were selected by the City Council with no notice or competitive selection process. On Nov. 7, the City Council approved an open-ended option to sell our sewage disposal site and Dutch Harbor to Boeger Land Development. The option was granted, for free, for land that we are still paying for!
The City Council is naively pursuing this poorly-conceived scheme with its attorney as its representative, instead of the acting City Manager, City Engineer, and Community Development Director.
This Council hopes to deal with our sewer problems with us, the ratepayers, picking up the tab for operating an expensive tertiary sewage treatment.
The plan will be costly and will destroy our small-town atmosphere with traffic and pollution. Building more houses and bringing in more people will not solve the problems of Lakeport.
The Council needs to focus on potholes, police service, and a REAL solution to its sewer problems created by the numerous developments it has already approved.
Linda Marie
Lakeport
