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Prescott City Council Study Session—September 19,2006 Page 16 with anything if their water wasn't up to standards; but the Environmental Protection Agency wasn't going to change the water quality standards. Councilman Lamerson maintained the resolution would not be a futile effort; the State allowed property owners to drill an exempt well because the charge of the hookup to the City of Prescott water supply was more than the cost of drilling a well and yet the City was under a mandate to reach safe yield and that was a conflict in policies that he wanted to have addressed. Dar Rosito, 2155 Chickadee Creek, Mullen Way area—Appreciated the opportunity to comment; was not in favor of going in this direction;he was willing to pay to have water and sewer and that was the reason they annexed into the city; but it was disgraceful how they were treated; cost estimates kept changing, going higher and higher and there was a real lack of performance on the city's part. He said they were deceived on the project and now the Council had the potential of cutting him off from the only water he had; he didn't need the government to tell him what was right; he would end up having to haul in water and the city didn't have the right to deprive him of the use of his well. He asked if that wouldn't be a taking of his property. Councilman Lamerson asked Attorney Kidd if this resolution applied to kW' existing wells and Mr. Kidd replied no,it was the proliferation of new wells. Mr. Rosito asked if the resolution stated that existing wells would be exempt and that it applied only to new wells and Attorney Kidd read a portion of the proposed Resolution No.3778: "Whereas, the exemption of such wells from water quality standards poses an unfair and unequal treatment among classes of users and if the EPA regulations are intended for public safety due to perceived health risks, allows these risks to be assumed by persons creating exempt wells in the Prescott AMA." Mr. Rosito apologized because he did not have the complete resolution, only the title that was on the agenda. Yvonne Dorman, 1335 Mullen Way—she didn't have the attitude that she had hers and didn't care what happened to other people and she felt the same way Mr. Rosito did; it didn't seem right for Big Brother to come into her house. She asked what would happen if her well didn't meet the standards or stopped producing enough water—where she would get water. She asked what would happen if the well began to produce enough water again or if she had to drill another well because hers gave out—if she would have to follow the new rules.