Dear Editor,

I have been thinking for some time that the Sulphur River Basin Authority (SRBA) has lost their collective mind. No one in their right mind would have thought of building such a non-needed, overpriced, ecological disaster as Marvin Nichols Reservoir in the first place.

The SRBA also told so much untruth about the lake bringing jobs and money to this region that you would have thought everyone would be millionaires if the lake was built. No mention was made of the lost jobs, higher taxes, loss of land by mitigation and flooding would take place.

Now though, the SRBA has run off the rails. I'm talking about the fact that on January seventh, Dallas turned down an SRBA-sponsored deal for a study of the lake which would have cost Dallas six hundred thousand dollars of taxpayer money as a down payment and then, on February 18 the SRBA participated in a pitch for a "watershed study" of the Sulphur River which would have cost Dallas taxpayers one million dollars!

The kicker is that for five years the SRBA has been looking for a partner to front the money for a study of a logjam near the junction of Texas Highway 37 and the Sulphur River. How much would this partner have to put up? If you guessed a million dollars, you hit the jackpot.

This attempted con of the Dallas taxpayers was a conspiracy and contained misinformation that was purposeful in order to get a desired result -- obviously, to further the cause of the SRBA and build Marvin Nichols. Such underhanded, sneaky actions are the way SRBA has been operating since I first became aware of their existence in early 2001.

Whatever the reason they want to build it, North East Texas does not need this lake, now or ever!