I guess you have to be in your late 60s or early 70s like me to remember the TV series “Dragnet” with Jack Webb as Detective Joe Friday and his sidekick, Harry Morgan (later of “Mash” fame). Detective Friday’s memorable line when interviewing subjects is “Just the Facts….All we want are the facts.” If the person he was interviewing was female, the line is perhaps better remembered as “Just the facts, ma’am”.
Carefree’s own attorney, Craig Morgan, in his letter to the law firm representing the Boulder’s HOA that can be seen on the Carefree Unity website (Carefreeunity.com, then click on Posts, then click on “Town Attorney Cautions Board”) , Mr. Morgan rebuts the many irresponsible and provable as false statements that continue to spew forth from the Boulders current Board. To that I say, why can’t we get back to the good old days of “Just the Facts….All we want are the facts.”
On that note, I will offer my own rebuttal to what I feel is just one of the misleading and incomplete statements in Mo Benedetto’s opening paragraph of her letter to the Sonoran News dated Feb. 3. In that paragraph, she states “the Arizona Department of Water Quality (ADEQ) has never received a single complaint from a Carefree resident”. Like many other residents getting their water from the Town of Cave Creek, concerns that I had about the quality of my water were directed to the Town of Cave Creek, the entity which provides my water.
Why get entangled with a remote government agency when I should go directly to the local people processing and responsible? In addition, I knew from the May 29, 2019 letter that Cave Creek sent to all their water customers that ADEQ was aware and had already notified the Town of Cave Creek in writing to remove additional and potentially harmful byproducts from its water supply at that time. So, Ms. Benedetto’s statement, meant to infer that the residents of Carefree served by Cave Creek Water apparently weren’t troubled about their water quality because they never contacted ADEQ smacks of innuendo.
Another concern in addition to the potentially harmful disinfection byproducts noted in ADEQ’s letter to Cave Creek in 2019 mentioned above comes from my own experience in replacing several lavatory and shower valves in my home because they were plugged with grit and other tiny particles. These plumbing repairs were not inexpensive nor without my own worries as to the nature and health impact of that grit.
Consolidation of my water supply to Carefree Water allows me to get secure, long-term water service with responsible, proven supervision. At the least, it allows me and every voting resident to address any possible concerns to the water board members who are the seven elected councilmen of the Town of Carefree with a responsibility to their electorate.
Jeff Kerner
BSChE, MSChe, PE (ret)
