Water, highest and best use of aquifer needs to be considered

  WATER,  WATER ,  EVERYWHERE  -----  AND NOT A DROP TO DRINK?

I am the first, or maybe the second or third, to stress that the Town of Lisbon needs more viable businesses.

We will possibly be facing a loss of tax revenue next year when the owners of the former Knight Celotex Mill demolish the buildings. We will be collecting taxes on the land only. As it is, most or all of the equipment has been removed with a loss of personal property taxes. The former Worumbo Mill property is still for sale, and awaiting a developer. How many other businesses will be closing and/or leaving due to the poor economy?

Why do I mention this?

I have been a REALTOR since 1979, One of the first things we learn when listing and selling real estate is

                                    "Highest and Best Use". 

The former Dragon property in Lisbon is over a wellhead, . Not too many years ago the city of Lewiston asked if they could connect to our water supply and purchase water from us. It would seen that the Highest and Best use of the former Dragon property would be to develop the water supply, sell water to the City of Lewiston, perhaps even to the Town of Lisbon?

Have you ever drunk Lewiston water?  The taste is so bad I would not drink it when visiting family in Lewiston. Many Lewiston residents do not even drink it.

What better way to develop the former Dragon property than to put it to it's HIGHEST AND BEST USE?

It would create an environmentally friendly business, create green tax income for the Town of Lisbon, and for the owners of the property.

                                               From where I sit, it would be a great opportunity  

                                                                WITH WIN, WIN RESULTS

Dot Fitzgerald

A Very Concerned Lisbon Citizen