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WILLIAM J. DITTRICH 

 the v#atershed dump with the $1,500 special assessment 

 requested by the Regional Planning Coiamission for next 

 year for 'comprehensive' county-wide, water-sewer study 

 (as evidenced in Exhibit 19). Is this really evidence of 

 the 'comprehension' of the problem and representative of 

 the values placed on this resource? With what vision do 

 our planners 'plan'? And what stand do elected represen- 

 tatives take? 



"Compare with what one of the Nation's 

 foremost authorities on water pollution problems recently 

 said (in Reference 14) : 



"...there are three elements irtvolved: 

 technical knowledge to which research continually adds-- 

 money--and enforcement. We have enough of all of these 

 to check pollution and reverse the tide right now. 

 Technical know-how is available for resolving most of the 

 pollution problems now. It will be forthcoming for those 

 problems which still require answers. In the matter of 

 money, it is inconceivable that the richest country in the 

 world that has developed the most sophisticated methods of 

 financing would find this an insuperable problem. . .who 

 can believe that we will not be able to arrange the required 

 financing for cleaning up our valuable waterways. Where 

 the technical knowledge and the money are both available 



