I live in Farmington, but grew up in Wilton near the Wilson Lake. I have a friend who lives in Wilton now who told me she was walking there recently and was surprised at the amount of fireworks residue around the lake, not to mention what fell into the lake itself.

I have a schoolmate who lives on a lake in Washington state. The area hosts fireworks on July 4. My schoolmate kayaked for hours afterwards picking up paper, plastic and miscellaneous items, only to be distressed by the huge amount of materials in the lake she could not reach.

A quick Google search on fireworks pollution shows how really foolish people are to expose lakes (plus our ears and the environment) to entertainment that is both dangerous and polluting beyond what most people can imagine.

As unpopular (and some will say un-American) as it is to suggest, people would be well-served to have accurate information provided so that they might make better choices of entertainment that would not be so harmful to Earth’s precious land, water and air. Just a suggestion.

I love Wilson Lake and would hate to see it (and other bodies of water) harmed further just for a short bit of entertainment.

If we continue to irritate Mother Earth, she might just shrug us off like the pests we have become.

Dave Mitchell, Farmington

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