I'm on a community system that comes from a well that feeds 70 lots (non profit association). We were told by the State People (EPA) that we had to drill a new well becuase of being over the Nitrate limit by 5 parts per million. It cost almost 2 Million dollars(the financing is a story on it's own) and nearly five years of paper shuffling to accomplish this. Out of the 70 lot owner there we only two individuals really pushing this. Now were we had to nearly triple the water rates to pay for this (a lot of retired people on fixed incomes here). Now with the new system, we have the bad gas smell like rotten eggs on some of the lots and those people complain vehemently. We get some sand and other sediments also. Our association is just that as we all own equal parts of this "mess". At the meetings people stand up a say "I'm paying for a service and I want clean water". I'm a board member so I remind them that they own as much of the sytem as anyone so I ask what are "they" going to do about it. No one wants to raise rates further for microfine system filtering. The EPA thru their wisdom made us trade one problem for another. I'm guessing the "High Efficiencey" and very expensive washing machines (that plugs up and quits working) were EPA approved. Now we're buying Highly filtered (as advertised on the label) bottled water to drink. Land values have taken a dive as peole are selling and moving out to live in a condominium somewhere that uses a municipal water supply. This is election year and I'd like to get rid of some of this great government oversite. bjr