Letter to the Editor by, Lisa Stringer, Klamath Falls

The South Suburban Sanitary District spent the last year trying to divide this town.

They put their patrons up against the Rollinghills/Reeder Road and the North Poe Valley communities because it was imperative that the Rollinghills/Reeder Road & North Poe Valley communities sacrifice their land, their homes, their health, and their way of life to make it so the SSSD could save face after procrastinating for more than ten years to meet the DEQ requirements.

Since the Klamath County Planning Commission and the Klamath County Board of Commissioners both unanimously voted to deny the Reeder and North Poe Valley Projects, the SSSD has been working like they received approval for their project.

Why would the SSSD spend $5.5 million dollars of its customer’s hard earned money to buy property on North Poe Valley that they were told they could not use for their wastewater treatment project? Why would the SSSD spend another half million dollars to buy land off of Reeder for their vetoed wastewater treatment project?

If money is such a concern of theirs, why are they recklessly spending it on land they have been told that they can’t use? Why didn’t they instead spend this money to upgrade their current system to meet the DEQ requirements?

Instead, according to their 2020-2021 budget, they have spent more money in the last nine months than they will bring in as revenue from the sewer rates that they charge. How is this an ethical way of spending money?

The SSSD continues to show that they aren’t working in favor of their customers. It’s time that we stop playing into their scheme to divide us and ask the SSSD Board and Michael Fritschi what is really going on.

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