Friday, September 10, 1999
Board reluctant on sewer dispute
BY KRISTINA GOETZ
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FLORENCE — For the third time in as many months, opponents of the proposed wastewater treatment plant in Belleview again sought the support of the Boone County School Board.
They did not get the answer they wanted. Despite a lengthy presentation, the board could not be convinced to take a stance.
“This board feels very strongly for all of the children in Boone County,” board chairwoman Carrie Dickmann told the crowd that filled the cafeteria Thursday night at Florence Elementary School.
“We are acutely aware and appreciate your passion about this issue.”
By consensus the board stuck to its original decision to not take an adversary position with the Sanitation District No. 1 until a study commissioned by the Boone County Fiscal Court is complete.
The fiscal court is expected to approve the $20,000 study at its meeting Tuesday.
If approved, it will be done by the Environmental Resource Management Center at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights.
A draft is scheduled to be complete by Nov. 2.
Some in the audience sighed and others shook their heads as they came to realize the board wasn't budging.
They had hoped more people would join board member Ed Massey in opposing the site chosen by the sanitation district, between the Ohio River and Ky. 20 in northern Boone County, about 1.3 miles north of Burlington Pike.
“It's amazing that they can hear all that and yet they won't say anything,” said John Arrasmith, a spokesman for the Belleview Action Committee.
“I don't see any point in going back to them until the study is completed.”
Mary Swiggum, an opponent from Rabbit Hash, said she was disappointed but not surprised by the board's reaction.
“I think everybody was hoping they'd be a little more assertive,” she said.
A new sewage treatment plant must be built because the Dry Creek plant in Villa Hills — which treats waste from Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties — will be at capacity by 2003.
District officials say it is not financially feasible to enlarge the Dry Creek facility.
Sanitation district board members have also said initial estimates indicate the property in Belleview can be bought well within the acquisition budget.
Ms. Dickmann said school board members are listening.
“Taking no action does not mean we are taking a stand against you,” she said.
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