City needs to make sure businesses pay their way

After reading about the accidental sewage spill into the Pend Oreille River it makes me wonder … is the sewer plant unable to handle the increase in sewage? Since Sandpoint keeps adding buildings and residents, it raises the question, is the infrastructure able to withstand the increase?

Not only is the sewer plant in question, but what about the electrical grid and water? Will the residents be forced to foot the bill to update the needs for sewage, water and electricity? Or will the big businesses thriving in Bonner County have to pay their own way?

I'm afraid new businesses will continue to take advantage of Sandpoint's laid back attitude, abuse of this right-to-work state and tax breaks for out-of-state businesses.

Effluent happens even in Sandpoint!

MINDY PELTON-KELLEY

Sandpoint