WTP4 Redux
Has the tide finally turned on the troubled plant?
By Wells Dunbar, 12:07PM, Thu. Aug. 9, 2007
Could today be the day Water Treatment Plant No. 4 finally jumps the shark? Let's do a little vote counting – sponsoring the resolution this afternoon (to be picked up after 1pm, said the mayor) exploring the long-shot possibility of a regional plant are Mike Martinez, Jennifer Kim and Brewster McCracken. There's three people unexcited by or opposed to the plant in varying degrees.
And who, you may ask, postponed the hearing on SOS's WTP4 appeal from late August into October – in the middle of the non-nesting season engineers say they need to start WTP4 construction by? None other than its (former?) biggest booster, Lee Leffingwell. If you've lost him, well, you've lost WTP4.
Stay tuned.
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