Government's heavy hand

Editor,

The million-dollar pipeline to return water to the river illustrates the heavy hand of federal government on citizens of our country. The discharge permit of Saratoga for wastewater treatment is in jeopardy if the citizen boards don’t accept the proposals and money to meet EPA’s changed guidelines and standards. This may be leverage to some folks, but it smells like bureaucratic corruption to me. The discharge water will end up in the same North Platte River, but unbuffered by passage through a considerable distance of soil and vegetation as it is now. The discharge as it is now is cheaper, biologically healthier and sustainable with no degradation to any riparian habitat.

This is typical of EPA constantly finding new issues, so the bureaucracy can perpetuate their expansion of government regulations and influence. A pond built by a Uinta County man, with all the proper State of Wyoming permits, is another example of private citizen under the thumb of EPA. Check out that case and you will further understand how federal bureaucracy persecutes and intimates innocent people.

Now is the time for the citizen/taxpayers of Wyoming immediately demand the EPA back off of stupid projects and oppressive regulation that do nothing but waste dollars and time and contribute absolutely nothing to a clean, healthy environment.

If citizens don’t put down their feet now and change the oppression of ever-growing and changing federal regulations, it will be too late to spare future generations perpetual headaches.

Sincerely,

Scott Kerbs

Saratoga