[Vision2020] no superwalmart and water

[Jeff Harkins]

Mark,

Very useful information.  I will respond to various issues  over the 
next few weeks.  I will begin with this observation.

>The Moscow-Pullman Airport is about to undergo a renovation that 
>will cost about $50,000,000 over the next 4 years.  The expectation 
>of spending that amount or more does not seem out of line to deal 
>with a possible water distribution problem that could benefit tens 
>of thousands of people and provide for the economic growth we will 
>require to sustain our prosperity here in the Palouse.
>
>I am also pleased that in your list of conditions for siting a 
>reservoir that you include a requirement that any property owners be 
>compensated in a free-market type of exchange.  I wish that a 
>similar concern had been used when the pressure to impose a water 
>management subzone was invoked on many of us landowners without any 
>proposed compensation for that property right taking.
>
>In any case, I look forward to a continued dialogue on the water 
>issue.  I will do my best to engage some appropriately credentialed 
>water geologists and other related scientists to help us understand 
>the more critical elements of this issue.

>Again thanks for the response.