Maybe it's me, but I find it amazing that 39 Maryland Department of the Environment inspectors made only 2,213 visits to more than 12,000 active construction sites ("Audit questions agency's practices," Dec. 2).
Each inspector, if working a 40 hour week, has the potential to work 2,080 hours a year. If 2,213 sites were visited, and 81,120 man-hours were available, this would mean each inspector made one visit to a construction site every 36.6 work hours or essentially, one visit a week.
I do not know what other job duties inspectors have, but the job title is "inspector." Is it unreasonable to expect more than one job site visit per week?
Working at that pace, I'm not sure that 100 additional inspectors would be enough.
Robert Jones