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makeup of the committee and its commitment to wastewater recycling, they have not been willing to discuss the quality of life and the citizen concerns of this project. She said it has become evident that this project was approved to allow DSRSD to serve the needs of a growing Dublin but also the developers of Dougherty Valley. She did not understand what the benefit of this project was. She had a concern with the lack of citizen overview for this project. This project exposes to risk the potable water storage aquifer of the current residents and leaves the other agencies sewer customers with higher costs. She felt DSRSD and Zone 7 were working together against the public and that the information to the public has been lost. She said the public should be able to decide if this is a good project. Carole Varela, 3858 Mohr Avenue, said a chemical known as DMSO has not been mentioned. DMSO is a magnet for other chemicals and has a very long life span. It is hard to detect and she was concerned about how it would be filtered out. She did not believe in recommendations by paid professionals. She said the cities that do use RO water are over developed and do not set a good example. Just because Livermore uses it on its golf course doesn't make it safe to drink. She did not want to drink sewage and other stuff dumped down the drains. She asked the Council to protect the families and future generations' health and say "NO" to RO. Brian Bourg, 4512 Second Street, said the only places one would have to drink RO treated sewage water is on the moon, on Mars, or in a space shuttle and asked Council to vote against the RO project. Balazg Roznyhi, 1104 Ave de las Palmas, Livermore, asked what was the possible effect on the water table of the reinjected RO water. He felt it was safe to say that there would be contaminants left after it passed through all the membranes. The best scenario is that the concentration of the contaminants will not be very high and will be flushed out. The worst scenario is that the concentration of the contaminants will increase as time goes on. He recapped that ignorance could lead to a blunder of immense proportions. Bill Dengler, 4745 Peaceful Lane, objected to the use of RO water. He felt there were many scientific questions left to be answered that cannot be answered in the near future. He said the Council needed to give this project serious consideration. Cindy McGovern, 9206 Longview Drive, cared about children and believed that the people needed to leave the world a much better place than the way they found it. She said water is the most important resource for the body. She did not understand why someone would take a glass of clean water and put contaminants in it. She said membranes have a tendency to break and was concerned with what would get through the membranes. She felt that all the answers were not available to make a decision. She has not seen Zone 7 do much for the flood plain. She would like to know what has been done in the efforts to control sewage and water runoffs. Why is this the answer the City needs to take? She had some concerns with the report and Pleasanton City Council 13 09/08/98 Minutes