Salisbury's $84,000,000.00 Waste Water Treatment Plant Won't Work!

While many have wondered where the notorious Mayor Barrie Tilghman of Salisbury has been this past year, Salisbury News has the answer. She's been in hiding because she knew something none of you were aware of.

Ladies & Gentlemen, what you are about to hear is by far the biggest cluster, (you know what) the Eastern Shore has ever seen. The Salisbury Waste Water Treatment Plant could be a massive SCAM, costing Salisbury Taxpayers more than $40,000,000.00! That's right, it doesn't work and over the past 6 months your Mayor has known the system wasn't going to work!

Mayoral Candidate Gary Comegys prides himself on voting yes to a "Proprietary System." Here's the thing. Under accomplishments on his Campaign Website it says, " New Waste Water Treatment Plant (many years in the planning and design)" During debates and forum's he's constantly taking the position of just how proud he is on the new WWTP and how he was instrumental in the process, yet he has known there were some very serious issues at hand with it and kept it quiet.

This proprietary system has NEVER been made before, other than a model, (whatever that means) it has never been proven to work. It's a patented system, (so we were all told) in which, should ANYTHING ever go wrong, you can only rely on ONE company, (the company that designed this pipe dream) to fix it. Guess what, they can't fix it either!

At this very moment the company that was handling the OVERSIGHT of the Contractor has in fact been suspended. This is NOT good Folks. I have documents below proving the system will NOT work and your Mayor and Gary Comegys have known about this problem for quite some time. This is not the kind of people you want running your City, that's for sure. They want ALL of this to slide by all of you in the hopes of getting it past the election and then start pointing fingers later.

However, while Salisbury News has been aware of this situation since late Friday night, I held off exposing it so it would gain the biggest impact on Monday. To put it frankly with all of you, YOU'RE SCREWED! Mayor Tilghman sold you snake oil and Gary Comegys was the Vice President.

The Tilghman Administration has in fact contacted the MDE and have asked for yet another extension. Even though Mayor Tilghman stated we'd all be on line last September, even though she recently went so far as stated we're on time with the WWTP, SHE LIED! Her own State of the City Address said, it "was substantially completed in 2008." This was said on March 13, 2009.

A Consultant has been hired for the sum of $20,000.00 to come in and help figure out what has happened and what they currently have. In his letter dated 3-13-09 he stated, "It sounds like your treatment plant has been plagued with both process and physical/mechanical problems since start up." He goes on to expand on his rates both for engineering AND litigation. His litigation fees as an experts are $400.00 an hour, not included in his $20,000.00 fee. When "I" read litigation fees, someone is getting sued! Read between the lines Folks!

In a memorandum to the Mayor and Council dated 3-16-09 Mr. Messick states that "the City's engineering consultant, O'Brien & Gere Engineers, has been unable, after 6 months, to start up the new WWTP processes for compliance with the NPDES Permit Limits which are to come into effect on May 1, 2009." He goes on to say, "The City has selected another Engineer / Operations Expert (suspending O'Brien & Gere Engineers, Inc.) to assist the City in wastewater-treatment-process engineering, functional operations and adjustments for the upgraded and expanded WWTP processes and facilitate compliance with NPDES limits within the remaining approximate 1.5 - month time period, to avoid enforcement measures from MDE and EPA and prevent a non-compliant discharge to the environment from the Salisbury WWTP."

Just how much more of this crap are you people going to take. Here you have Comegys and Tilghman agreeing to pay out $40,000,000.00 for a system that has never been proven. They told you this thing would do things no other Plant could achieve, yet they never researched a finished product and now it will not work.

Ladies & Gentlemen, ANY good business person would NEVER hire a company to install a unique product for $40,000,000.00 that has never been proven! This is not a simple mistake. The Mayor, (through these letters) has been well aware that the system is NOT WORKING, yet she says nothing. The system was supposed to be up and running last September, it is not. Now, through Salisbury News you are learning for the very first time that things are not just bad, they're very bad.

This Mayor should be impeached immediately as ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! The images below are the recent series of letters going back and forth on this matter, proving what I'm saying is accurate. You can click on these images and enlarge them and read for yourself just what's going on.

Gary Comegys rubber stamped far too many items as a Councilman. Developer reimbursements, the old mall, Sassafras annexation, the WWTP, can someone please tell me what this guy has done right? Muir Boda challenged Debbie Campbell for voting "NO" too often. Hey Muir, Debbie voted "NO" on most of the WWTP items too, what say you now?

If you want the entire Eastern Shore laughing at the City of Salisbury because the citizens were so stupid they actually voted this guy into office as Mayor, my God, give Gary Comegys your vote. If you want to wise up and throw these bums out of office once and for all, make a stand April 7th Ladies & Gentlemen and send these people the right kind of message, vote Jim Ireton.

Clearly this will be all over the local news by 12:00 today and if it isn't, well, then you'll know just how much power Barrie Tilghman has over the media. The documents I have provided clearly show this has been an issue for at least the past 6 months and nothing was said to you. The cover ups are over. The election is over. Get this woman out of the way because Jim Ireton has a lot of work ahead of him. Shame on you Barrie Tilghman AND Gary Comegys!