Re: city water
- Subject: Re: city water
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:55:14 EDT
In a message dated 7/4/02 2:39:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:
<< than people with two acres of lawn. (Undoubtedly in other places this is
true - not here. Some day when you have 2 or 3 hours, I will tell you about
my adventures with the local city owned water department. I kept a log of
all my phone calls and attempts to find the right person in the water bureau
who could answer my questions and at least get me a separate meter for the
nursery water. 6 months worth of headache and frustration. They just wear
you down until you give up.) >>
I can surely give out sympathy here, truckloads of it. I was the gofer in
the construction company besides having a somewhat better title at times but
I went to the city of Albany, New York for permits. We needed lots of
permits for all kinds of things you don't want to know about. That is I
stood in line and made the many return trips for small inconsequential and
impossible to know errors. One day I walked in, up the stairs and found the
door locked. I had to knock and it was opened by a guard. I had to submit
the papers (always lots of papers) through steel bars covering the area than
formerly was the work counter. Someone had come in and when he had just to
much to bear beat the clerk over the head with a clipboard. Since then, in
Albany, New York you will have to visit the building dept. through steel
bars. You cannot ask for forms, they are on tables in the halls and you
retrieve them yourself. If you have a question, you ring a bell and have a
talk through the steel bars.
So Marilyn, I say that is business apparently everywhere. I once wrote to
the mayor and explained, logically I thought, that the building dept. served
me, the taxpayer and not the other way around but it only got me a form
letter. It is true though that your water dept. is there to help you find
solutions to your problems, not make them. I believe this so strongly, I can
become something of crank on the subject. When we are in charge Marilyn, we
will make a few changes! My husband says you would have a commercial rate
here and a separate meter. We have some statute about helping small
businesses, especially if they make jobs for the unemployed. You would
qualify for several special helps in a startup.
I wish I had some cheery thing to say about water, but I do not. Except,
that I stayed in front of the TV to watch the Boston Pops do up the 4th of
July on the Charles River as usual and I feel very proud to be an American
tonight.
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