As a longtime victim of Tooele City's inadequate and ineffective storm drainage system, I read with great interest Beverly White's recent opinion column on fixing roads and storm drainage ("City must act to upgrade decaying infrastructure," Sept. 11). The problems she referred to were identified to city officials as early as 1979 and have been ignored by every elected official since. The mayor blames the city council. The city council blames the mayor. The time to stop the blame game is now, and the time to correct the problem has past. Because flooded property and basements are only important problems if it's your property and basement, it has been impossible to get anything from city officials but a token of sympathy. The resolution to this problem gets more expensive with each passing year, and the number of affected families grows. The problem with roads and storm drainage will only get worse and more expensive with time. Beverly White wants a commitment from elected officials to make this a priority, but after these promises are made there must be action, not more talk. When your basement is full of sewage or storm runoff you don't care whose fault it is, but you do care about who has not taken action to fix the problem. Right now, that's the mayor and city council. Those individuals running for city council should quit blaming the other guy and start to take care of the citizens of this city.

David Bleazard

Tooele