Is this the same Issaquah City Council that laudably considered all variables and enacted a forward thinking decision to eliminate plastic bag use in Issaquah? Did that decision consider the best long-term interests of Issaquah residents and those of neighboring communities by far exceeding any requirement of the Washington State Department of Ecology?

Why, then, when the issue at stake is as great in magnitude as the injection well at the Lower Reid Infiltration Gallery (LRIG) and the very real and immediate potential to contaminate an aquifer shared by two cities, are councilmembers willing to advocate for safe drinking water only as far as the state’s minimum standards? Allowing the LRIG injection well to start again is irresponsible and shortsighted. The council should continue to act as the prideful bastion of the trust and well being of its city, its residents and the greater community.

Dale Durbin, Sammamish