Hear ye!, Hear ye! Councilors! Listen to Ed!

Ed LeChapelle, of Bend, that is, who on this page on Oct. 27, wrote just these 21 words: “Why don’t we figure out how to move Mirror Pond muck into that mine site on the new OSU-Cascades campus?”

Anyone with the very slightest knowledge of construction costs knows that it costs at least two and a quarter times less to move dry — or somewhat dry — soils than it does to move underwater soils.

Here is a real cost-saving opportunity. Grab it!

Use this opportunity to draw down the water level of Mirror Pond and excavate the problem materials using ordinary land-based construction equipment to return Mirror Pond to its decades-long attractiveness. These materials came down the river naturally, and they are suitable fill for many locations.

Dale E. McCoig

Bend