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...