Eureka receives $875,000 for Martin Slough interceptor

Greed is good. Once you've approved a fantastically humongous fee increase and then receive an unexpected (really, was it unexpected?) windfall of cash, of course you don't rescind the fee increase. Mmmm, money, give me more!

Shame on the Eureka city government, bilking its citizens blind.

typical local gov. vote them pigs out

The Times Standard needs to check its own previous reporting or make a call.

The Martin Slough Project is worthy of its own story.

According to the Aug. 20. 2009 City of Eureka Waste water Plan Update Martin Slough will cost $16 Million, Eureka's portion is $6 million, but if the Humboldt Community Services District doesn't come up with the other $9.5 million little progress can be made!!

In fact, the city of Eureka has dissected this project to purposely reduce its actual cost of nearly $40 million, as previously reported in the TS!!!

At least report on the amazing reduction in cost of this project!!

Mike Thompson can give his $800,000 every year and most of us will never live long enough to see the project completed!

71% of Eureka's waste water system was built before 1970! 35% before 1920!!!

Just to replace the mains responsible for 41% of rain water infiltration in the top 6 basins would cost $66 million!!

PLEASE COVER THIS STORY!! DEVELOPERS ARE WANTING TO BUILD 9,000 MORE UNITS OF SPRAWL IN CUTTEN!! MORE ON HUMBOLDT HILL, AND MORE IN MYRTLETOWN!!

TEll the story, you dont know the story.

how about 15.7 million for the water system, very important, and 875,000 for pot police, less important.

I'd like to know if just the sewer rates are going to go up, or will this cause the water rates to go up too (pulp mill closure notwithstanding). I'd also like to know when this project will take place. I've heard that Eureka Golf Course will be partially closed for up to two years, 9 holes one year, the opther 9 the next, as some of the sewer lines that need to be replaced run right through the course. Does anyone out there know the answers?

OK, I'm an idiot. I thought from the title that this story would be about a very expensive police car.

Government gotta build them reserves while the taxpayers go further in debt. The Tims-Standard should do a feature on the total tax burden increases in the past 3 years, city, county and other local unities...

unanonymous wrote:

how about 15.7 million for the water system, very important, and 875,000 for pot police, less important.

Those numbers don't make sense to me. Why are we spending so much more on "restoring public lands?" It's not like a SEWAGE spill!

tomtom wrote:

Government gotta build them reserves while the taxpayers go further in debt. The Tims-Standard should do a feature on the total tax burden increases in the past 3 years, city, county and other local unities...

Everybody poops.

Infrastructure is very expensive and most of our nation's infrastructure is decades past its design life and has decades of deferred maintenance. Take a look at the ASCE (Am Society of Civil Engrs) "report card". We need to start rebuilding now, or we are going straight third world.

Read the "Edge of Disaster" by Stephen Flynn.

The current condition of U.S. infrastructure is a serious national security threat.

Robin Arkley of Security National is currently suing Humboldt County for more remote subdivisions that it turns out DO NOT pay their way in increased infrastructure costs.

AND THEY WANT THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS MORE UNITS IN CUTTEN, MYRTLETOWN, AND HUMBOLDT HILL.

This is the way they've been socially engineering this county,(by the highest bidder), and the chickens just came home to roost!!!

Your basic water bill will be $90 in less than 5 years.

Honestly telling this local story will offend the sensibilities of the developer community, the brokers, Realtor, property management and speculators. It will rattle their lair at the Lodges, the Ingomar, Chamber and Rotary.

In the meantime:

Do not eat local Winter crab, fish or oysters.
Do not let your children play in Eureka's wooded wetlands in Winter.
Do not allow your domestic pets or livestock into the wooded wetlands in Winter.

And pray for no new subdivisions, because that's all the input you have left!

Tell The Story wrote:

Read the "Edge of Disaster" by Stephen Flynn.
The current condition of U.S. infrastructure is a serious national security threat.
Robin Arkley of Security National is currently suing Humboldt County for more remote subdivisions that it turns out DO NOT pay their way in increased infrastructure costs.
AND THEY WANT THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS MORE UNITS IN CUTTEN, MYRTLETOWN, AND HUMBOLDT HILL.
This is the way they've been socially engineering this county,(by the highest bidder), and the chickens just came home to roost!!!
Your basic water bill will be $90 in less than 5 years.
Honestly telling this local story will offend the sensibilities of the developer community, the brokers, Realtor, property management and speculators. It will rattle their lair at the Lodges, the Ingomar, Chamber and Rotary.
In the meantime:
Do not eat local Winter crab, fish or oysters.
Do not let your children play in Eureka's wooded wetlands in Winter.
Do not allow your domestic pets or livestock into the wooded wetlands in Winter.
And pray for no new subdivisions, because that's all the input you have left!

That is seriously messed up. I have been thinking about this issue so much lately, very disturbing how little control we have. We are all going to pay for their profits? What do these new developments do for us living here now? Don't forget the Pierson developments.