As homeowners like myself, who live on Henlopen Avenue know, the laying of the outfall pipe all the way across town and down the middle of our street is exceedingly disrupting, not to mention expensive for the city.
A few nights ago Bob Stenger, superintendent of the Rehoboth wastewater treatment plant, appeared on TV.
What I would love to know from him is whether, with modern science, the effluent from the WWTP couldn't be refined to a potable condition. I have every reason to think it can.
That being the case, why wasn't the WWTP upgraded to purify the effluent so that it could continue to be discharged directly into the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal. Instead the course taken was to leave it polluted; to send it all the way across town at great inconvenience and cost, and out into our beautiful ocean where there is at least a likelihood it could on occasion pollute our beaches.
Is that something the Cape Gazette might look into? The horse is already out of the barn, so to speak, but the answer would be interesting. This may have been covered at the time the decision was made, but I'd still like to know the answer.
William Paton
Rehoboth Beach
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