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Dear Vesta,
Thanks for your support of the
Vesta, I want to thank you for making such an effort as regards my little “op-ed’ ..It has been shared all over the nation and, indeed , even in France and England now.
Learn to Swim Program. We got over one hundred volunteers, in addition to the good info in your articles disperesed in the community.
My great joy was the reaction at our Congressmans’ office in D.C where the office aids included it in J. Huffmans’ daily brief.
Greg Jacobs, Sebastopol
If even one person were to be inspired to learn more, that would be success! Thank you again for putting this in print, and for making such a special effort to elevate it on- line... It looks so cool with the actual Document displayed there with it!!!!
impacts us
So appreciative my fellow citizeness!!!
Please follow up on this. Thanks, best, Judith
Sincerely, Terrie. P. Kully
The follow-up is coming and not simple, but as to composting toilets, the issue is still both maintenance and disposal of the waste product.
I am impressed with how far this has reached. In one day there were 48 shares on Facebook - some with comments - what you wrote moved me and MANY others. People WANT to know. Our country was established by immigrants who wanted a better place to live, Some place where they felt safe. They wrote these documents as an insurance poicy for the future. We need to heed their intent! ~ Vesta
Also, at every meeting when this comes up people complain that composting toilets will open up development on lots that can’t support a wastewater treatment system, in the same way that sewer hook-ups have opened every previously unbuildable lot to development.
The Age of Reason
What I don’t understand about disposal is that every person who walks his/her dog and picks up the poop in little plastic bags, simply tosses the bag into ihe trash.
TMDL: How this rule
July cover article on water reveals that composting toilets are LEGAL IN THE STATE BUT NOT THE COUNTY. WTF? Too inexpensive, environmentally friendly and commonsensical???
By Thomas Paine
To My Fellow Citizens of
I put the following work under your protection. (The Age of
Reason) It contains my opinions on Religion. You will do me the justice to remember that I have always strenuously supported the Right
Every cat owner who has a litter box disposes to the poop in the trash, or if they use compostable and septic-safe organic litter, they flush it down the toilet.
The United States
of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself
to his present opinion, because
he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Bottom line is there has to be a solution to our depleted water quality and the regulations to accomplish that are coming one way or another. They’ve been coming for about ten years, but now our rivers are more studied, measured, and analyzed than they have ever been before.
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.
We KNOW the PROBLEM. We still don’t know what the SOLUTION is! Sewers systems are too costly, so the state is looking into small community systems. Stay tuned! ~ Vesta
People are disposing uncomposted waste every day.
Your’ affectionate friend and fellow-citizen, Thomas Paine
LETTERS cont’d on page 4
January 27, 1794
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