Editor,

Perry Lovelace of Langley responded to my concerns about our island’s aquifer with reasonable thoughts about an islandwide Public Utilitiy district like that of Jefferson County. There are positive aspects in his proposal, but there still are concerns because we are an island where resources like our aquifer are more limited.

Mr. Lovelace is correct to identify our aquifer as being “single source.” It is limited to our replenishing rainfall. Being an island surrounded by undrinkable seawater that continually infuses itself into our freshwater aquifer, we must have an abundance of rainwater that exceeds the amount we extract for ourselves just to keep the aquifer clean, drinkable and refreshed. Without that “excess,” the whole aquifer can become poisoned like has recently been hap

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