[StBernard] water issue meeting at Council chambers - Thursday Sept 19 @ 5:30pm

[Westley Annis]

Just more specifics on the 5:30 p.m. parish Water and Sewer Committee in the
Council Chambers on Thursday:


The Water and Sewer Committee will host the meeting to get an update from
the administration and to address residents¹ concerns.

But, it seems residents will not get an opportunity to directly ask
questions at that meeting -- they instead must submit any questions to
councilmen beforehand.

They can submit questions by calling the Parish Council's general number at
504.278.4228, fax in question to the council at 504.278.4209, or email
questions to council at sbpg.net.

People also can submit question in writing prior to the start of the meeting
with forms that will be provided at the meeting.

A full list of Parish Council members' direct numbers and emails is
available on the council's website: http://bit.ly/1f7zjRv

Also, in case you haven't seem update Times-Picayune story on the water
issue that is in today's paper, you can click here: http://bit.ly/1f3c4rN

Hurricane Katrina discussed as possible culprit for St. Bernard's
brain-eating amoeba

A smaller population base after Hurricane Katrina could possibly have
contributed to contaminated water in St. Bernard Parish, which has led to
two deaths in the past three years.

³Certainly immediately post-Katrina, the St. Bernard population was greatly
reduced, and to have a water system designed to provide water to that many
people and then you lose half of them, part of the concern would be, just
from a water quality perspective, that the water would just be sitting in
the pipes, aging, and you could have a deterioration of the water quality,²
said Jake Causey, the administrator who oversees safe drinking water for
Louisiana.

For full story, click on this link: http://bit.ly/1f3c4rN