Why is Mayor Fleisch not ordering the repair to the spillway? Why are the Peachtree City Council persons not serving the people who voted them into the positions they now have?
Is there anyone in Peachtree City who does not understand that the Georgia Dam Authority, the EPD and the USGS do not have the authority to tell Peachtree City citizens that they cannot repair the spillway?
I have written articles in The Citizen explaining why this repair is an in-house problem and that the Peachtree City Public Works Department should repair it and refill the lake.
If you take the amount of money required to make the repair and multiply it by 1,000, you will have the amount of money that has been spent and that is being proposed to be spent.
Rather than spend the much smaller amount of money needed for repair, the mayor and City Council want to invest our money to the tune of possibly a million dollars to dredge silt that is not now or ever was a problem.
The county is taking care of the silt problem. There is no other silt problem. When we see sand piled in places around the lake, we can know that those piles are only about six inches deep and are of no consequence to the quality of the lake.
Fix the spillway, fill the lake and fight the EPD because they are wrong and it can be proved. And they know it.
Charles Phillis
Peachtree City, Ga.
