Dear Editor:

Do you really want the Boothbay Selectmen to allow the excrement of 350,000 tourists from away to endanger our drinking water? The “gardens” website projects 350,000 visitors. Excrement from 350,000 tourists into a septic system that threatens our drinking watershed! Seriously?

Our lakes “both are listed on the DEP priority list of threatened lakes and in Chapter 502 of the Maine Stormwater Management Law as lakes most at risk from new development,” as quoted from the Boothbay Region Water District brochure located in the town office lobby. It appears that the selectmen refuse to take the advice of their state and local water experts. There are even more toxic numbers at CMBG — 800 +- parking spaces dumping oil, chemicals, butts, trash into our watershed. Beyond foul, putrid, dangerous.

Our drinking water is currently at risk. No permits for any development on our watershed is common sense. And recommended by the water authorities. Do you get it now? Human waste from 350,000 people.

Something is rotten in Boothbay.

Sally Glaesner

East Boothbay