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Joe Murray, candidate for Gray Water Board, a Trusteeship with a five-year term. He is an incumbent, and unopposed.

The Monument posed three questions to all the candidates:

1. Please name the top three issues you see as facing your Board.
2. Tell The Monument Readers how you will approach solving the one most
pressing of the above-mentioned issues.
3. Please share your favorite quote.

Joe Murray, candidate for Gray Water Board, a five-year term

In my view, the top three issues facing the Gray Water District are; preservation and protection of the existing water source, development of a second well source and replacement of the aging water tank on Weeks Hill.
Although protecting the water source is clearly the most important, I feel the current initiatives to accurately map the aquifer and strengthen protective zoning requirements are well underway and are the lynchpin in the overall effort to protect the source.

I believe that development of a second, independent well source is the most pressing issue at this time. It is vitally important to the future growth of Gray and the ability of the Gray Water District to economically serve a growing customer base. Increased capacity will be needed and the redundancy of source provides alternatives should the primary source become contaminated or compromised in some way.

As a current Board member, I serve on the sub-committee to identify potential sites and work with landowners toward possible development of one of those sites for a second well. If reelected I will continue to vigorously pursue this important task.

Favorite quote…….I don't know that I have a favorite but one I like and used to keep on my desk is from Jonathan Swift…. "A man should never be ashamed to admit he is in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than yesterday."

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Joe Murray, candidate for Water Board