The recent article about the waste water plant spending $400,000 for odor control is rather comical. A few months ago in a meeting with the city council and mayor, they blamed septic trucks for the odors . They stopped receiving septic waste along with the revenue it generated, around $400,000 per year, then one week later raised everyone’s sewer and water rates. They are also still paying a loan payment to the State of Michigan for money borrowed to build the septic receiving facility, so with no revenue from the haulers and the building and equipment sitting idle, people should ask where are they getting the money from to make the loan payment? Their answer is to raise sewer and water rates. Only the government can get away with that kind of mismanagement. I think the tax payers should check out what is going on with their city government. The odor issues have been there for years and not from septic trucks like the mayor said.

Richard Gillespie

Spruce