Letters

The Department of Environmental Conservation’s mission: “To conserve, improve and protect New York’s natural resources and environment, and to prevent, abate and control water, land and air pollution, in order to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state and their overall economic and social well-being.”

DEC’s goal is to achieve this mission through the simultaneous pursuit of environmental quality, public health, economic prosperity and social well-being, including environmental justice and the empowerment of individuals to participate in environmental decisions that affect their lives.

Nowhere does it state that one person’s purse or interest shall come before the greater good. Or do we need to change the mission statement to tell the true story? A story of a sand mine wanting to dig 110 more feet into the groundwater, with a 6-acre lake inside a sandpit [“Outrage In East Hampton After State Says Allowing Mine To Dig Into Groundwater Poses No Environmental Threat,” 27east.com, September 3], and how a community’s well-being and the water doesn’t seem to matter, because the DEC doesn’t give a damn. “No environmental impact,” they claim.

Not doing your job, we say.

Or is your job for sale?

Nanci LaGarenne East Hampton