Editor:
Re: Authority rejects extension for city, Jan. 29.
It has been reported that Fraser Health rejected the city’s request to extend the water-disinfection deadline beyond June 30.
Why? Is it because the health authority didn’t get its way due to the overwhelming response that council and the residents gave in regard to do more study on the issue of using chloramine and/or chlorine?
If the urgency to add more chemicals – chloramine and/or chlorine – to the water system is due to the 2010 E. coli scare, then why has it taken six years to implement a disinfectant? Why didn’t the Fraser Health Authority immediately require White Rock to have a disinfectant by 2011?
It seems coincidental that suddenly the city has to add these chemicals to our water system once they took over the utility from Epcor, six years after the E. coli scare.
The problem with today’s society is that they mask the problem instead of getting to the root of it. You see ads on TV that promote a pill to help you with some type of medical symptom, yet it has side effects which could damage organs, and/or cause death, but the risk is yours to take. Is that what we are doing to our water?
Masking the problem by adding more chemicals will create more health issues for humans as well as what it will do to our environment.
Do we want to take that risk? Let’s not and get to the root by coming up with a better solution to this.
Let’s not do a knee-jerk reaction by masking the problem, but get to the root of it with a proper solution.
Robert Barnes, White Rock
