Illegal Transfers Stop, But Columbia’s Water And Sewer Nightmare Continues
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“Columbia mayor Steve Benjamin took $4 million from it – reportedly part of his effort to lure a minor league basketball team to the city.”
Given that Benjamin has diverted all these funds out of the money for the sewer system, may be we should just show up at his place when you have to take a crap.
Little Detroit run by the typical black mentality.
Don’t change the oil (sewer system) in your car, instead buy a $5000 set of rims for it.(baseball stadium)
Somebody should look into Palmetto Utilities, Inc. permit application to dump 6 million gallons of waste water into Spears Creek in NE Richland County.
Somebody should look into why the Columbia Canal was not maintained properly and then failed. A few 10 thousands not spent on this part of the water system and now 10s of millions in repair bills.
So long as the sewage runs downstream, why pay to fix the sewer system? Too bad the water system is as equally fucked up. It’s harder to live without that. We need a Mayor, not a Token.
Look no further than Bob Coble. Mayor Bob invented this theft. Then after 20 years of Krispy Cremes and fried onion rings, the tax payer got hit with his $150,000.00 hospitalization bill. You can’t curse the water in Columbia without Coble’s name.
Fitting that Coble Plaza overlooks the Wreck of the Columbia Canal. Coble rhymes with Gobble. Great legacy Mayor Dough Boy! Take a trolley!
Amazing that Columbia is looking for vast amounts of federal taxpayer’s money to fix the canal dike but no one is the least bit interested in determining why the canal failed in the first place or in the canal operator’s starring role in that failure by negligence and incompetence both. Not even FITS is interested. Nor the city council. Nor some regular watchdogs. Nor a local state representative. Nor FEMA. We’ll see about the IG, though. Isn’t it fraud to try to get disaster money when your own insurance and maybe your consultant’s insurance should be ponying up big bucks?
Where is a professional forensic engineering “post mortum”? Where is all the evidence?
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