LETTER: There are some benefits from bottling plant

I’ve never written a letter to editor before, but needed to voice a positive opinion on the Creston bottling plant.

All I see is people saying how they do not want the plant but nobody gives any other ideas. It appears to be a farmer with a new idea to keep his open land by filling in the gaps on expenses and taxes. Or he probably would have to subdivide like most other farms just to keep up with the bills.

It looks as if the state has checked the water usage and it shouldn’t affect the neighbors. I’m pretty sure there will be rules, and if it affects the neighbors or the aquifer, he will probably have to reduce production.

After driving by and seeing where the discharge water goes, it looks as if it flows past his house. I don’t think any person would discharge water with anything that might kill or indirectly affect the vegetation or wildlife in one’s own back yard.

I don’t think anybody has realized that these jobs that they would create wouldn’t be directly related to timber or tourism which would be way more stable.

And last Montana water bottled and shipped and distributed locally should reduce greenhouse gases since we wouldn’t have to transport across long distances using gas, oil and diesel.

—Will Kuchera, Kalispell