Outside the Historic Green County Courthouse, 30 minutes before the March 8th monthly meeting of the Green County Board of Supervisors was scheduled to begin, a significant number of interested county residents were gathered, wearing blue, holding signs and blue balloons in what was perhaps the largest show of blue at the courthouse since the dedication of the Green County Civil War Monument 103 years earlier, in 1913.

But tonight, the people in blue were at the Courthouse in hopes of convincing the Green County Board of Supervisors to approve spending $105,528 to do a thorough hydrogeolog...