The local media outlets are touting the news that our local corrupted elites, Randal Kaplan and Roy Carroll are both planning downtown hotel projects in anticipation of the construction of the Greensboro Performing Arts Center that you and I had no say in being built, but besides all the obvious corruption one question remains that no one wishes to answer: Who pays for the water and sewer improvements necessary to make it happen?
You see, Greensboro isn't New York City with giant sewers big enough for homeless communities to camp in and alligators to breed, nor are we Atlanta with a new wastewater system costing $Billions upon $Billion. Nope, Greensboro is a city whose downtown already has a less than adequate sewer system that dates back almost 100 years.
Oh sure, there have been improvements, pipes repaired and plastic pipes inserted into much of downtown Greensboro's water and sewer lines and our water and sewer department is reasonably certain they have since removed and replaced all the wooden pipes installed downtown in the early 1800s but a sewer system big enough to handle 2 luxury hotels and a performing arts center... Folks, we ain't got it.
Not only do we not have it, we can't afford it. At well over $1 Million Dollars per mile from downtown to the closest waste treatment plant located in McLeansville the cost will be staggering and the project will take years to complete. Meanwhile downtown residents, restaurants and everyone in-between will be inconvenienced with the worst known kinds of problems just so 2 rich bastards can flush their royal thrones.
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You see, the existing pipes simply aren't big enough to flow the extra volume. What's that? Forced mains? Yes, you can add pumps and force more through the lines? Sure, if you don't mind it shooting out into every East Greensboro sink and toilet between downtown and the Osborne Wastewater Treatment Plant. Forced mains require separate lines and separate lines is exactly why its going to cost in excess of $1 Million Dollars per mile. And we don't even know that the Osborne Wastewater Treatment Plant currently has the excess capacity to handle 2 hotels and a GPAC. After all, there have been times when there were spills at Osborne because it exceeded capacity. That's what caused the odors at the White Street Landfill. You see, the overflow from the Osborne Wastewater Treatment Plant is piped upstream to the White Street Landfill I presume so the spillage can be recaptured and treated as it comes back downstream to the treatment plant.
So again, who pays for the water and sewer improvements? After all, we don't want to end up like Fatburg.
