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There are three things in this week’s
county news.
A blue ribbon committee held
its first meeting to discuss ways to
meet Wake County’s exploding growth, but
I could not find any mention of future
water sources.
Falls Lake is slowly filling
but is still more than 3 feet below its
normal level. The Raleigh City Council
decided to retain stage two water
conservation measures.
The Raleigh City Council
also decided to give the Town of Wendell
an additional 1.5 million gallons of
water a day so that a developer can
build about 4,000 houses. Wendell has a
population of 5,000.
We all should know by now
just how crowded our county schools are,
and officials are working on plans to
construct seats for every student. It is
a crisis, but the availability of
adequate drinking water supply is one
that is lurking just below our
consciousness. It surfaces every time
there’s a drought, then recedes.
We can build schools; we
cannot make water.
At the present rate of
growth, with more towns pulling their
water from Falls Lake, we will lap up
that supply, the planned Lake Benson
plant and the future Little River
reservoir within a decade or two.
We should plan now before we
turn into Ancient Mariners. |
