POSTED 8/26/07 An e-mail from a Village owner.

It's Saturday afternoon, and I just got back from visiting the area at South Point where our sewer pipe emerges from under the Intercoastal and joins the pipe to the treatment plant. It's from this site that the new pipe will be pushed through to our village. The sections of pipe were there and that's all---no installation equipment, no installers, NO ACTIVITY. At the last sewer pipe meeting the manager told us that permission to lay the pipe was forthcoming, he had made the necessary arrangements at South Point, and the job would start this past Wednesday. It seems that before the pipe can be pushed through, the sections have to be laid out and welded together. He told us he had made the arrangements to have the needed space cleared.
The story is ---- we have to rely on hearsay here because neither the board nor the manager have seen fit to give out any information for two weeks---- The story goes, the pipe arrived, the space was not cleared, and everything was left as I found it this afternoon. If the story is correct, it's just the latest in a long line of delays and screw-ups that have dragged out this situation far longer than one could reasonably expect. And the seventy-eight dollar an hour honey wagon rolls on 24 hours a day, and the bank balance???? But heck!! It's only money. When this $200,000 is gone, the board will borrow again.
At the same sewer meeting the manager told us he couldn't promise, but he didn't think there would be an assessment for this. Sure thing!! When pigs fly!! If the screw-ups continue, you'd better hold your breath before you open the bill.