Auntie Charo's Soapbox

What then was the rush to evict them two months ago? What was the reason for the threats to evict those people in the two subdivions? All for nothing but public display? For rattling their cages? For nights on end, all we saw were the anxious faces of those poor people waiting for the other shoe to fall. Everybody who was anybody threatened to shoo them out of their homes because they didn't have hook ups to the sewer system, or proper septic tanks.....they still don't...and miracle of miracles something happened and now they breathe a sigh of relief because they have a stay as reported by KUAM news last night and I quote:"a request for progressive compliance". It gives the residents until April 4 to get portable toilets and contracts for servicing them. Then the residents have until April 25 to begin to remove noncompliant commodes and submit plans for construction of the sewer line and gray water disposal. The community still needs help from engineers in designing a gray water removal system, one that removes wastewater besides toilet water (i.e., dish, shower and laundry water). Construction on the gray water removal system needs to begin on May 10 and be completed by June 29 to comply with the EPA's letter. Compliance will earn residents a sixty-five day extension to stay in their homes, but non-compliance will earn them fines accruing daily starting April 5. Another Government of Guam entity interested in the state of Gill-Baza's lack of infrastructure is the Consolidated Commission on Utilities. CCU chairman Simon Sanchez says the members in private executive session last night to become privy to the consent decree and potential litigation by the Attorney General, the Department of Public Works and the Guam EPA against subdivider Cyfred. Sablan referred to this offer "progressive compliance".

In the meantime....continue drinking your bottled water, it may be sometime before we can be sure that those people really comply with this progressive thingy they say they're gonna do while they become compliant with whatever it is they're gonna do to become stop waste in to contaminating our drinking water in the north. So much for rattling cages! Sigh!