Our View: Well-safety priorities are right, but the funding is inadequate.
Friday, June 30th, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
Considering the sums provided, all three bills to improve water quality in North Carolina would qualify as respectable steps in the right direction.
Considering the sums provided.
All three (Gov. Mike Easley has one, too) would provide $1 million for devising construction and testing standards for new wells. That’s good. The House bill would also provide half a million dollars for testing the safety of water in existing wells that serve an estimated 2 million users. That’s good, too.
Obviously, none of this is going to get the job done. Just as obvious is that the governor’s bill and the Senate’s would be better if they, too, mandated some attention to existing private wells. But if something had to be omitted, Easley and the Senate had their priorities straight. (more…)
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