Get
over Anthem reality
Your
headline, ‘‘Here’s the love,’’ assigned
to the letter submitted by Debbie Joy of
Desert Hills (Jan. 3, The Desert Advocate)
as a retort
to my writing of the prior week brought
a smile to my lips. I’m sure you chose your
tag line with tongue planted firmly in cheek.
Poor
Debbie, so much anger, so little understanding.
From her letter, it is apparent I didn’t
have to drill very deep to get all that
anger to gush forth. Sadly, from the tone
of her letter, there appears to be very
little joy in her life because of Anthem.
It
is too bad that the only response Ms. Joy
could muster was to shake her head rather
than attempt to fill it with knowledge by
educating herself and dispelling the half‑truths
and fabrications she quotes so freely in
her letter.
First,
she might have contacted Arizona Water Supply
and learned that the company drilled two
wells in Anthem, drilled to meet state requirements
for the developer of Anthem but reserved
for emergency use only. AWS gets the water
it provides Anthem from two other sources:
The City of Phoenix and the Colorado River
(CAP).
Anthem
does not consume ground water.
Second,
ground water is located at various levels
at and below the surface depending upon
soil, rock, elevation and strata/plate configurations.
How Ms. Joy knows that the unused Anthem
wells are at the same underground level
or utilize the same groundwater source as
Desert Hills is a mystery to me. So how
could the Anthem wells have depleted the
Desert Hills ground water?
Third,
the Anthem lakes she pejoratively mentions
are actually reservoirs for the processed
recycled water Anthem produces and uses
for its water park, golf courses, etc. Anthem
is green (pun intended).
Not
to be completely down on Ms. Joy, she is
right about one thing. Anthem does contribute
to the traffic problems on I‑17. But
so does everyone else using that highway
including all those new communities off
Carefree Highway. To attribute all of the
I‑17 problems to Anthem is an oversimplification
and a nonsensical comment.
To
read her comments you would think I‑17
was built for the exclusive use of Desert
Hills residents and shame on anyone who
should infringe on their domain.
Stop
blaming others for your challenges, Ms.
Joy. Anthem is a reality.
Get over it and move on. And while doing
so, please feel free to enjoy the amenities
and attributes of our lovely community.
Douglas
Perez
Anthem
