Aqueduct Break
Tom Gorman, as usual, wrote a wonderful story on the break in the aqueduct. (“The Big Break,” Oct. 7). I was particularly interested in the fears of the water districts if we had an earthquake, and the cities that would be without water.
Lest we all forget, the Gregory Canyon Landfill site abuts the aqueduct, and the water authorities have been warning the county that if there was a break in the aqueduct above this site because of an earthquake, it would flood the landfill and send thousands of tons of pollutants into the underground aquifer, and down the San Luis Rey River, to Oceanside, causing a monumental environmental accident.
Isn’t it possible that your editorial of Sept. 9, calling for the Board of Supervisors to accept the North County Landfill sites, might not be in the best interests of your San Diego readers? Maybe you should rethink it. You can’t say it won’t happen, because it did.
JEANNE RAY
Fallbrook
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