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[bobemm]

SIGH.

I really can't wait for this election season to be over. Like really, really.

I was going through my mail from last week and happened upon a mailing from the Republican party. The whole point of the pamphlet was basically to stir up suburban resentment towards Detroit, because we all use Detroit's water system, but have no control over what Detroit charges us for that convenience (duh, right? If we want control so bad, why don't we build our own water systems? I'm not sure, maybe because it's so expensive, and our taxes are so low? So, uh, thank you Detroit?)

Given the state of the state and the significant role that the mass exodus into low-density residential areas has played in the ongoing collapse of our state's economy, stirring up this sort of resentment based on a false sense of entitlement is just about the ugliest thing that the Republican party could do. I guess I should expect no better.

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[qmrf.livejournal.com]

Just in case you have the chance to pass this information on, YCUA serves Ypsi City, Ypsi Township, and the part of Superior Township that has municipal water. (Generally south of Geddes.)

On Spring Street, across from the Visteon parking lot, in an oxbow in the river right before Ford Lake, is Ypsi's Waterworks Park. Where did it get its name? Well, because that's where YCUA's water treatment plant used to be, before we abandoned it to tie into Detroit's system, I believe in the early '90s.

Why'd we do a thing like that? Because tying into Detroit's system was cheaper than maintaining our own system - let alone building a new one.

(And here the Republicans claim to be the ones who understand economics...)

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

HA! So we don't want to pay to maintain our own, much less build our own (outside of the YCUA area, I mean). But we can still resent Detroit for not making it even cheaper for us. Bleh.

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

And, as an aside, I'd be kinda grossed out to get our water from that point in the river. It's not that far downriver from Ann Arbor's wastewater treatment plant.