Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Water-Logged Tall Tales

It was story telling time at the city council meeting Tuesday night. Trying to persuade fellow councilpeople to vote to purchase the water company, some tall tales were told. The councilperson that always does the most talking on the “televised” city council meetings made an impassioned charge against Illinois-American Water Company, saying they had so mishandled the City Street project on Forrest Hill that it stopped the children from going to Woodrow Wilson School. In fact this councilperson said “Those poor kids couldn’t go to school all week.” First I called Woodrow Wilson and asked if ANY kids were prevented from going to school. The answer was NO. NO attendance days were missed. This afternoon, I drove over to confirm and to see the project. It is a rather large project that will take quite a long time to complete. I asked half a dozen people, some workers, about the status of the project and not a one blamed IA for any delay of the project. But some did blame the city and one blamed “the weather”.

This same councilperson made a large to-do about lawsuits and boil orders in a community near us where IA owns the water company. On 8/27/05, an article in the Daily Pantagraph states “Boil order—the boil order for about 650 residences west of Bloomington and served by the Bloomington Township Water District has been lifted. The order was issued earlier this week after a water main break.”

Owned by the “public” and they had a problem??

Hmmmmmmmm.

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