Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Editor's Notepod, Tues., Dec. 16, 2008

Meriden, Wallingford, Cheshire: Covanta/CRRA trash disposal. Meriden approves Covanta contract, Wallingford expected to, North Haven may have done so Monday night. Fine. That’s the way the water’s running. But the lens has shifted. Now it appears that CRRA may exercise its option of buying at fair Market value (a totally unknown figure) at the end of the contract, the end of 2009. This would bump any contract the towns have reached with Covanta. It’s the same thing as before, either Covanta buys the place for a $1 or CRRA gets it at fair market value, but the equation has somehow twisted.

Meriden: Use of a drug dog to sniff around apartments at Crestwood II. Just because something might be legal doesn’t mean anyone should be doing it.

Meriden: Repair of the pipe on Britannia Street. Seems like a workable solution, and cheaper than digging the whole darn thing up and replacing. But 14-16 feet down? Why so deep? I’ll bet there’s an interesting engineering story behind that!

Southington: the Aquifer protection rules. It’s time to get this done. Other towns have coped. Yes, it makes some rules, but these are for everyone’s benefit. Everyone lives here, not just developers.

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