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People will back swimming pool for public use

I read that the YMCA is going to build another pool because Hernando County is growing so fast. They can't accommodate all the people.

But this is only for the people who can afford to go to that place. How about the people who can't pay to go to the YMCA? People who work all day, pay taxes and their children don't have a swimming pool?

For those people, Hernando County Commissioner Chris Kingsley asked for a public swimming pool. But the county didn't pay attention to him.

Mr. Kingsley, propose the swimming pool again. This time the people will back you up. Let the rich people go to the YMCA.

Rachael Rodriguez, Spring Hill

Good old cistern or rain barrel a lot cheaper than AquaMagic technology

Re: When is a machine like a wellspring, Aug. 9 Times:

Our dehumidifier sucks about 6 gallons of water daily from our garage. Our washer and dryer are out there, so it was damp before we started using the dehumidifier. I use this water for my flowers.

I dug a little trench from our heat pump drain and this water goes to a flower bed. Neither of these devices even approach the cost of Mr. Wright's AquaMagic, which sounds like a large, filtered dehumidifier to me.

Mr. Cunningham's comment on this sounded odd. Has he never heard of a dehumidifier?

My father was a farmer who lived in Hernando County for many years back before everyone, except a few smart people on Key West, threw away their cisterns. He had a gutter system on the roof, which took rainwater into the cistern.

I guess that's why I have a rain barrel. I consider rain-barrel and cistern water undrinkable unless treated, but it doesn't require a city water system either, and is there when water lines break.

Doris Taylor, Brooksville

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