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• • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council January 6, 1982, Page 11 Mayor Meza agreed to recognize him if he would be brief. Spradling: I've read about the subsidence for some .time. I'm acutely aware of it. All of us are that live in this area. I understand from some of the things I have read, that since industry has gotten off of underground water, the subsidence has stopped and the ground is coming back up some. Now this is what I read. I've always thought that I would not like to drink surface water. I've read, over a period of years, how people that live down stream and all the toxic waste that runs into it, septic tanks and disposal plants that run into it and it is just nauseating to think of having to drink all that. Plus, I always thought it was a lot more expensive than well water. We live in a highly industrialized community here and we all know that by accident and on purpose that there's a lot of chemical waste goes into the water sheds. There's a lot of agri- culture runoff, there's dead animals, septic tanks and sewer plants. There is all kinds of things goes into sur- face water. Also, just recently, I think it's just a week • or two ago, in the news about Baytown's surface water. That they had a - I don't remember what the word is - but they had a cancer-causing agent in their water and they were having to use a lot of chlorine. Maybe the chlorine was acting with something else to cause it, I don't know; but anyway, this is something I'd like for y'all to consider. I like to drink well water as long as I could. If we are forced to do it someday, O.K., but until that time I'd think we ought to stay on well water. We have heard some conflicting statements here tonight. I believe Mr. Skelton says League City or somebody was required to only pump so much. I don't know that, and Thomas says that's not true. I really don't know, but anyway, what I'm saying is, I'd much rather drink well water than sur- face water, and the cost. I don't know what kind of water bill you've been getting, but my last two water bills, in my opinion, have been pretty high. My last two was $56.23 and $56.43. I think that's pretty high for a water bill, and that's in the winter; I haven't watered anything. In the sum- mer time I water and I can see a $200.00 water bill come sum- mer if I water. If it's going to cost more for .surf ace water we are looking at one heck of a water bill for everybody in La Porte. So this is something I think you'll need to take into consideration. Also, I think you need to do some more checking on subsidence. As I said, it is my understanding that subsidence has stopped. Also, years ago I read in the paper that La Porte, Deer Park, Morgan's Point, Shoreacres, • Seabrook, several of these municipalities around here, that we didn't take out as much water collectively as some of this