THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, July 14, 1994 TAG: 9407140023
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
After reading the article ``Beach OKs resort plan, starts buying property'' (news, June 29), I wonder where all the water is going to come from?
Residents of Virginia Beach know full well what it is like to be denied the right to wash a car, water a dying lawn or fill a kid's wading pool because of the water restrictions. The restrictions are mandated by the same council members who obviously know something about the future of our water-supply situation that the rest of us do not.
These same people, even with the latest Gaston pipeline setback, want us to believe that our future water supply will be able to accommodate not only the citizens of our resort city, but also a 15,000- to 20,000-seat amphitheater, an expanded (tripled) Virginia Marine Science Museum and not one, but at least six new golf courses! Are these people serious? As an avid golfer, I have yet to see a golf course survive without a great supply of water.
Virginia Beach City Council continues to confound me, as well as, I'm sure, many other residents of this city, with plans and decisions such as this. Shouldn't we at least get a handle on our current water-shortage problems before we let City Council start creating new ones for us?
Wake up, citizens of Virginia Beach! City Council has left the water running and, once again, we are going to foot the bill.
DAVID C. FRITZINGER
Virginia Beach, June 29, 1994 by CNB