BOARD00284

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. BERTHELSON:

"First, I want to thank the Water Board
for getting into this. I think we are part of
the problem and have got to be part of the
planning. I don't have any definite recommenda-
tions.

I think Larry pointed up a problem all
right and that is these sanitation districts.
We are going to have to develop laws or rules
and regulations so that somehow the people can
get together and start paying the bill for
correcting the pollution. The Water Pollution
Board has had adequate federal funds but these
funds are contingent upon local participation.
The thing has been a kind of a standoff there,
as I understand it from my limited experience.
But I don't know where the answer will have
to come from. I don't recall that the Water
Pollution control Commission has any ideas
about new legislation. They are meeting today
and I want to thank you boys for taking me off
the hook over at the Water Pollution meeting.
I thought I was going to have an easy day and
then you schedule this thing over here! It
points up one thing that I am sure of and
that's why r am getting prematurely gray!

But I do think we have this problem and
we have to get legislation or you have got to
have authorization so the people can get some
way to raise taxes and then it relates to
zoning also. I don't like some of these things
that are coming out of the environmental study
commission or whatever they call it. They
have a lot of ideas. We are going to have
more land use control around these areas from
the standpoint of zoning.

I will say this, the Pollution Commission
is trying to face this thing and solve these
problems. We do have septic tan~ regulations
now where we can study an area and say there
will be no more of it. That doesn't solve
Grand Lake's problems, they are already there.
But we are approaching this thing and trying