Ahh, sewage! The true bottom line. Let's hope the City of Menlo Park joins the fight to stop the Cargill development on the bay just north of Menlo Park's Bayfront Park. With 14,000 new houses and nearly 25,000 new residents, there will be winter, rainy months when we'll see sewage problems we can't even imagine now. West Bay has opposed this development along with every major environmental group in the entire Bay Area.

Menlo Park residents should stop worrying about traffic congestion, 3 story buildings downtown and the "village character" of El Camino Real and look to the town north of us that wants to create a new city on the bay.

I am amazed no one seems "Interested" in this issue. Baykeepers proposes to fine the residents of Menlo Park over 10 million dollars. If they succeed every resident of San Carlos, Millbrae and Menlo Park will have to pay thousands of dollars in fines.

Baykeepers is the biggest con imaginable. Their eleven member board consist of not one, not two, not three, BUT SIX LAWYERS. They make their living by suing public agencies....

It is my understanding that the sanitary district in Menlo Park is understaffed by a half dozen or so workers and is in heated labor(Union)
bargaining negotiations that are not going well. I have a friend that works there and he says that his fellow workers work very hard for the communities they serve and feel like the district is dragging it's feet on hiring and other issues. He also said there were some major issues with the old Manager Clayton and that is why he no longer is there. Maybe somebody should ask some questions of the people that run the show over there?