We could use sand now

From the Janesville Gazette - 12/3/08

Do any of you remember the flood of 2008? Do any of you wonder where all that sand went? It sure would be nice to see some of that sand dumped along the side of the road by stop signs so the locals could spread it out when it is icy.

Rock County must be too busy. Tuesday morning, two days after the storm, it was glare ice at Charley Bluff Road and County N. It is too bad the Department of Natural Resources and Rock County said we cannot use all the contaminated sand to spread on the road to prevent an accident that could be deadly! I think the town of Albion in Dane County was planning to do that. It was also OK for the DNR to authorize the cities of Watertown, Jefferson and Fort Atkinson to dump their raw sewage into the Rock River, which flows past your Rock County homes.

I wonder who contaminated the sand! If the DNR were doing its job, it would force these polluters to upgrade their systems to stop the pollution. I wonder how much it cost us as taxpayers to haul all that sand to the landfill. What happen to recycling?

“Recycle the sand,” Rock County and DNR. Do you get it? Duh!

TOM SHERMAN
Milton