Dear Hamilton County WWTA Board,
The Lookout Mountain couple should not be required to relinquish their private property rights to WWTA land for your mere convenience.
WWTA’s failure to plan for pump station maintenance is not the burden of the Lookout Mountain property owners. Perhaps this couple enjoys their privacy, landscaping, and values their land. The comments made by the WWTA board member is absurd regarding the price tag of the easement. After all, WWTA admitted publicly that they have another alternative for access with a concrete path.
WWTA’s failure to plan well in advance of the needed pump maintenance is not the property owner’s emergency or burden. The property owners were not seeking to sell their land to the GovernMint, rather WWTA failed to construct needed maintenance facilities. How is that the property owner’s burden? WWTA simply has no motivation to operate maintenance activities proactively, when WWTA can correct their operational errors on the backs of private property owners.
WWTA’s failure to plan and retrofit in access on the slope many years ago is not the property owner’s emergency. It is a circumstance that WWTA has been aware of for some time, and failed to act on and resolve.
Shame on you, Hamilton County WWTA, for infringing on private property rights, and intimidating property owners. Bullies.
April Eidson
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Luckily, my last three homes have had septic tanks so I have not had any dealings with the WWTA.
But I am getting tired of hearing about their mismanagement and other shenanigans.
How can they give themselves raises and not pay the companies doing their work enough to break even on the job.
And then to hear about them whining about not being able to access something that was built on the side of a mountain. Who builds something that will need maintenance sooner or later in an unaccessible location.
Dr. And Mrs. Golder, I hope you can hold off the WWTA as long as you can.
I wish someone would start a fundraiser so that a concerned group of citizens could offer the Golders $1 more than any offer the WWTA comes up with.
Wayne Evans
Soddy Daisy
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Regarding the article about the local plumbers and WWTA, I find it a disgrace for WWTA to possibly use outside contractors. The money earned should stay in Hamilton County.
It a shame WWTA is not willing to work with local plumbers that want to keep the dollars earned in Hamilton County. As it should be. WWTA is not playing a fair ballgame in my opinion.
Concerned citizen with property in East Ride (that is greatly affected by the WWTA) and Tiftonia,
Kathy Cresswell