Turmoil…
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“Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting for.” —Mark Twain

That’s the way I see water at Matrimony Spring. Turmoil!

Now let’s see how all of this came down on the closure of the spring. As I remember, the health inspector found a gnat in the water box of the spring. (Now, if you don’t know, a gnat is one of the smallest flying insects in the country. In fact the American Indians call them “noseeums.”) This tells me the health inspector’s glasses must be as thick as the bottom of the old coke bottle.

Now the ball really gets rolling. He tells the Grand County Attorney about the gnat in the water and possible coliform bacteria – which neither is worthy of spring closure. In turn, she is paranoid of a lawsuit and tells the Grand County Council. Learning all of this, council members become as nervous as a long-tail can in a room full of rocking chairs. Then when they all calmed down, they ordered the county road crew to go to the spring, cut the pipe off, and weld another pipe on to divert the water flow into the culvert under the highway where no one could get a drink or fill a container.

This was followed with the installation of a sign reading: “Untreated water - DO NOT DRINK,” picturing a skull and crossbones.

Now, why in hell would someone post this sign when you couldn’t get a drink, or even see the water, anyhow?

—Brig Larsen

Moab
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