AQUIFER: A warning on growth

First off I would like to congratulate all of you who won your seats on local city councils. Hopefully you will follow through on your pre-election promises to reduce growth in our area. This sustained uncontrolled growth we have seen in the past is threatening our aquifer and our ability to survive.

When I moved here 20 years ago, Post Falls was rationing water due to the threat to the aquifer, yet they were still building more homes. Well, since that time thousands more homes and tens of thousands more people have moved here to share that same water.

Is the aquifer still endangered? Probably, but the politicians and city fathers, city councils and planning departments don’t seem worried or care. By some miracle is there more water available for all of us? I doubt it. Maybe those in control care more about tax base monies and the possible profits from all this growth than the water that keeps all life as we know it alive.

By restricting growth we can save our little slice of paradise. The existing/past politicians have talked and talk and talked about growth — but have done nothing about it. It is time for a change. Without water this paradise will turn into a desert. Water equals life to this area no water equals death to our way of life.

DENNIS EDELBROCK

Hayden