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because the spring has been posted in the past and the signs were tom down almost immediately.
Moore said the highway department has not yet decided what action to take. He will meet at the spring with Health Department representatives next Tuesday to look at the options available.
“I want to see what it would take to satisfy their concerns and allow the spring to stay open,” Moore said last week. “If it is within reason, both money and resources, we are going to be looking at that also. We just don’t want to shut it off without exploring all the options.”
Concern has been expressed by the public on both sides of the issue, Moore added, “and we are listening to all of them. We haven’t reached a final position.”
From the health department’s perspective, however, the options seem limited. “It could be developed into a safe public water supply,” Tenney said, “but it would be very expensive.” And, he acknowledged, the necessary chemical treatment would remove the reason so many people seek the natural, untreated water.
Of the letter-writing campaign organized by people opposed to shutting down the spring, who have urged others to write to Dr. Buttery and highway commissioner Ray D. Pethtel, Tenney said, “They can write all the letters they want. But the fact is that water is not fit for human consumption -- and I can’t change that.
“The thing that will close this spring down,” Tenney added, “is somebody being sued over it. Someone will drink it, and their kids will drink it, and they’ll get sick and sue.”
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