Been reading up on surrounding towns' water laws and how they compare to Woodstock. How about this: in Rosendale, right here in Ulster County, there are, I think, five people, all of whom live in the water district, who meet monthly to manage the water district. These residents make the budget, and do all kinds of stuff. As volunteers. Meaning, Rosendale actually WANTS its concerned citizens to govern its natural resources. In Rosendale, during a drought, it is permissible to water plants that yield fruits and vegetables for human consumption. Also, a drought is defined by levels in certain reservoirs, the levels expressed in inches, not as a function of the eyeball of an untrained elected official.
How refreshing, Town of Rosendale!
I have one word for Rosendale's approach to water district management: sane.
The more I live in Woodstock, and the more I see how the wheels of inaction are greased to spin in futility, harnessing no productivity, the more I think that RUPCO is but one opportunistic bad bacteria in an already infected, if not rancid, human settlement, where everything is broken or well on its way to being dead, and where some voices rise in the obvious and painful last stages of an embittered passed glory.
Have a great day!
: - )
Friday, April 15, 2011
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