This portion of the Animas River corridor has a recent geologic history of mass wasting landslides, triggered by periodic methane accumulations and explosions. One can only speculate as to how Rivergate Lofts was ever approved as a viable development!

I invite you to do some studies of your own: Google “Moving Mountain, Durango, CO.” Expect some 50 pages of data on movement and landslide history along the portion of the Animas where many of the alternate sewage sights were evaluated, including Cundiff Park.

Any of these new sites would, according to the city, cost $20 million more than it would cost to rebuild the plant where it is. And that doesn’t include the huge budget that would have to be set aside for engineering on tumultuous ground. These sites simply do not make geologic or economic sense. Why would we ignore the new improvements on the Animas River Trail and put a new sewage plant in the narrowest and most flood prone portion of the river in an age, this age, of mass weather changes?

Vote “yes” on 2B. It’s just common sense. A sewer disaster would, indeed, be a huge disaster.

George L. Richardson

Durango