GROWTH: Problems in north county

I noticed when I read the Coeur d’Alene Press Wednesday that we wouldn’t be able to voice our protests on Thursday night against the building of the sewage treatment plant in Northern Kootenai County. How inconvenient for us. How convenient for Mort Construction and the people who want them to build it.

I live off Highway 53, on Chase Road. Several years ago, a construction company wanted to build condominiums on Rathdrum Mountain. There is no water here to spare, and no way to get rid of sewage. Their idea was to install sewage lagoons on Rathdrum Mountain! Yes, sewage lagoons. We fought them for several years, and the only reason we won was that in 2008, the economy collapsed. I’m sure they must have been thankful, in retrospect, that we stopped them.

Now, these weirdos want to build apartments or condos or whatever in the same general area. Our infrastructure cannot support this. We need electricity and water and ways to get rid of our sewage. How will we do this? We live on the edge of the Great Washington Desert. We live in a valley, surrounded by mountains on every side. How will we bring in the supplies we need to make all these houses, stores, and places like Avista run in emergency situations? This is not the Midwest, where it rains every other day. Only so many people can live here.

If we allow these greedy pigs to build and build, we will all be the losers. If we allow the elderly to move here with no hospitals to care for them, what will do with them when they become ill?

BETSY ROSENBERG

Rathdrum