Cemetery Road site is sensible choice

TO THE EDITOR:

When the citizens of the River Falls School District vote for the placement of a high school at Mann Valley or Cemetery Road, they should consider some of the facts taken from the city's comprehensive sanitary sewer study by Ayres Associates Oil in 1998.

The current service area is 1720 acres, total area evaluated is four times greater than current area or 7260 acres.

Page 2 gives a summary of costs. Namely northeast at $750,000; south east $280,000; southwest not applicable at this time, however, new Rocky Branch interceptor at $1,150,000; west (Mann Valley) $1,170,000; north area $1,160,000; and common interceptor to WWTP $220,000 + $60,000 with new Kinnickinnic interceptor. Again, totaling 7,260 acres - what a metropolitan city we are planning.

Remember, this is only for sanitary sewers, not water lines, not storm sewers, roads, streets, traffic items, number of buses, and number of bus routes to transport most high school students to Mann Valley.

Would it make more sense to use Cemetery Road area? It's closer to the technical school, to college facilities, and to the entrances to the highway bypass.

Aloha Hovde

town of Troy