To the editor:

I would like to thank you for all the exposure you have given to the sewer issue in Freeland. I am a business owner in downtown Freeland. The impression is that most businesses want the sewers because the chamber of commerce has been involved in seeking grants for the sewer project.

I would just like to say that, as a business person in Freeland, I do not support the $40 million sewer plan and have listed some of the most important reasons as follows:

There is no evidence that sewers are better than a septic system for this area.

Septics require no or little power, don’t require a bureaucracy or a big expensive facility.

The county has had a robust program to ensure all septics around Freeland and Holmes Harbor are in working order and haven’t found them to pollute Holmes Harbor.

The proposed sewer project is full of flaws, misstatements, errors in growth, cost and property value projections.

My own polling of Freeland property owners in the business district found that the only ones favoring sewers are those who know nothing about the project.

Unfortunately, even though I have a business in Freeland, because I live outside the Freeland Water and Sewer District boundaries like most business owners, I will not be able to vote for new district commissioners. We are unable to express our opposition to the sewer through the voting ballot.

If I could, I would vote for Lou Malzone and Marilynn Abrahamson for Freeland Water and Sewer District commissioners who are running this fall to bring a sensible solution to the sewer project that we can live with.

JIM WRIGHT

Freeland