Try compromise

Although the Killen City Council and many East Lauderdale County residents are at odds over a sewage treatment plant, it could be, with compromise, both could be happy.

Killen needs a sewage treatment plant to grow and prosper. Killen wants to place treated sewage in Mill and Bluewater creeks.

Some alternatives are for Killen to connect to the Florence sewage system, or run an outflow line to the Tennessee River, or to the mouth of Shoal Creek.

Water from most all sources in this area ends up in the Tennessee River.

Bluewater Creek and many East Lauderdale residents say that the creeks do not have enough water flow to handle the treated sewage, and that sewage plant discharge will harm the environment.

They say there will be odor and unsanitary conditions.

They fear for their safety and for the safety of children who swim in, and fishermen who eat fish from, the creeks.

Killen needs progress and East Lauderdale residents need a safe, healthy environment.

Life is a constant compromise and so is

politics.

I urge compromise for the best interest of all concerned.

Joseph Smith

Rogersville