Echoes of Enterprise

[H2O Man]

10. Well said.

Well said, indeed. You hit the nail on the head. Thank you.

I think we are in that fish tank now. I recently had a meeting with the superintendent of a school district in upstate NY. A decade ago, a building project placed a wing of a primary school right on top of a toxic industrial waste dump site. The dump was one of those pesky, unreported ones that dot the land here.

A few school employees approached me with paperwork that the last superintendent had kept secret. In fact, employees were afraid to report the problems that have resulted. While that type of fear is a stick that I don't feel, I can understand why they were silent. Yet that community's itty-bitty children were exposed to extremely unacceptable levels of poisons.

I know the history of the site, and the new superintendent has a conscience. So we are addressing the issue.