{"id":5493,"date":"2014-08-04T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T22:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:52:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T22:52:45","slug":"water-master-plan-meeting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/water-master-plan-meeting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"water master plan meeting #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/thMdS50l1eY?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today, representatives from Elbert County water providers, districts and planning agencies met for the second time to advance development of an Elbert County Water Master Plan.<\/p>\n<p>What I hoped to observe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A room full of engineers discussing mechanics of connecting their water systems into an integrated matrix of water and sewage pipelines spanning Elbert County and joined to various renewable non-groundwater sources from outside of Elbert County.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I observed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Too much thinking about Elbert County&#8217;s special quality of life, not a single word about renewable water sources, and no anticipation of commercial or industrial water usage except out by Limon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I hope to observe at future meetings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An unconstrained approach to water infrastructure that does not presume a smart-no-growth perspective, a plan that does not foreclose industrial and commercial growth, and a plan that allows for conservation but does not buy into the green myth of conservation as a basis for growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, representatives from Elbert County water providers, districts and planning agencies met for the second time to advance development of an Elbert County Water Master Plan. What I hoped to observe: A room full of engineers discussing mechanics of connecting their water systems into an integrated matrix of water and sewage pipelines spanning Elbert County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning","7":"category-water","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}