Superfund Dollars give hope that world's most polluted lake can be cleaned, state & local governments killing all hope!
source: http://Syracuse.com
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In Central New York, we are blessed with our connections to the enviroment and 95% of the fresh water supply for the U.S. We are home to over 20% of the world's fresh water.
Our watershed provides some of the purest fresh water in the country. The drinking water for millions of people is now in jeopardy as well as the country's taxdollar investment in reclaming our most precious resources.
In Syracuse, New York the most polluted toxic waste site in the U. S., lies within the heart of our community. It is called Onondaga Lake, it is a sacred lake in the ancestral homeland of the Onondaga Nation. It has been poisoned beyond recognition over the past 50 years by the corporate interests of GM, Crucible Metals, Solvay - Semet co., Allied Chemicals, [the compassionate people that burned Bhopal India, off the maps], Sewage overflow from the Onondaga County/ City of Syracuse and hundreds of smaller industrial pollluters.
15 miles[+/-] to the west are three of the Finger Lakes; Cayuga Lake, Seneca Lake, and Skaneatlas Lake, [the purest fresh water lake in the country]. Skaneatlas Lake and Otisco Lake as well as Lake Ontario provide our drinking water as well as the northeast's most productive fisheries and recreational uses.
Here in Syracuse and our local towns we hold the honor of holding National Speed Boat Competitons, the National Bass Masters Tournament, National Water Skiing Shows,SU Rowing Regattas, as well as the International Carp Fishing Competitons and much more.
Now, all of the work done over the past 10years,[+/-] through super funds to minimize sewage runoff and corporate pollution is once again in jeopardy!
Allied Chemical/ Honeywell, [the new owners hired to clean and run], and now the NYS DEC want to remove unfathomable amounts of cubic yards of mercury laden, chlorinated bi-phenyls, toulene, benzene, pcbs and more from the bottom of Onondaga Lake! The Lake is about 4.5 miles long and approximately 1 mile wide and has an average depth of toxic sludge of about 30 feet deep across the entire lake. Dredging this sludge will disperse particulates of the lake sending toxic soup into the Seneca River which ties into the Oneida River which then runs into the Oswego River and straight into Lake Ontario!
Honeywells engineeers and the DEC that is supposed to protect our enviroment have quietly negotiated, [special town committee meetings on this, as well as many other meetings were held without public input or recorded meeting minutes], and have agreed to place the sludge in a former allied chemical soda ash waste bed.
The wastebed, known as SCA #13 is adjacent to the protected famous trout stream, NINE MILE CREEK and is less than 2 miles to the lake shore. The potential for leaching toxic chemicals back into the lake, is more than probable as the waste bed has already broken free of it's containment berms in the past, it is at a higher elevation sloping gently into the lake and adjacenet to NINE MILE CREEK that is already filed with toxic leachates from the waste beds to the lake shore. the geo-tube containment method of storage planned is experimental and designed to allow contaminated water to leach back into the soils surrounding the lake, supposedly to allow the sludge to dry and be covered for 'recreational use'.
The PROBLEM with this whole 'plan' is that it is the only proposed 'plan' as there is no 'plan b'. Less than 90 miles from this site is a federally monitored toxics landfill, but honeywell/Allied Chemical thought that removal to a FEDERALLY APPROVED SITE would be too expensive. Just 3-4 miles to the south of SCA #13 lies an abondoned limestone quarry on a rail spur. Geo-fabrics and concrete liners can contain this toxic soup due to the depth of the rock base, yet this idea is given no consideration because it 'might' be more expensive to the companies remediation plan.
Add to this danger the Exxon Mobil/Xto Energy deal to extract gas from the newly discovered reserves via a process known as hydro-fracking. a process wherein wells are drilled and a chemical mix with water is pressurized into the rock fractures to extract gas. This method, was allowed when the bush-cheney admin. excluded big oil and the chemicals used in this process in the 2005 Clean Water act. The NYS DEC apparently has no concerns for this because everyone from the governor to the state legislators down to the local beauracracy can only see dollar signs. People's drinking water wells from west virginia to pennsylvania have already been contaminated and the cause as acknowledged by the DEC is hydrofracking.
Big Oil representatives have already secured land leases from innocent property owners. Big oil land leases protect the companies from any liabilities for clean up placing that responsibility with apparently naive land owners. Operations require an average 5 mile wide clear cut through many old growth forests and farm land. Operational damages to the enviroment alone should be reason enough to stop this invasion, but our government sees only dollars to help out astronomical budget deficits of the most dysfunctional state government in U.S. history! There is no safe way to store the toxic by products and the oild companies know it, they are already looking for alternative storage options because of a grass roots out cry!
please help us! see the attached link below to learn of the SCA #13 catastrophe in the making. Check out Syracuse.com , search for hydrofracking; Syracuse.com/forums west for perspectives from the locals in Camilus, NY where the wastebeds are located.
please consider the possibility that government is no longer of the people, by the people or for the people...especially when corporate interests are at stake!!
won't you please consider signing our petition?http://cleancny.com/Home_Page.html
more hydrofacking links to follow. this is a national precedent playing out in communities across our state where government, once again fails to act in the interests of the people!
Thank you for your consideration, we hope you will make your voices known on our behalf....
Our watershed provides some of the purest fresh water in the country. The drinking water for millions of people is now in jeopardy as well as the country's taxdollar investment in reclaming our most precious resources.
In Syracuse, New York the most polluted toxic waste site in the U. S., lies within the heart of our community. It is called Onondaga Lake, it is a sacred lake in the ancestral homeland of the Onondaga Nation. It has been poisoned beyond recognition over the past 50 years by the corporate interests of GM, Crucible Metals, Solvay - Semet co., Allied Chemicals, [the compassionate people that burned Bhopal India, off the maps], Sewage overflow from the Onondaga County/ City of Syracuse and hundreds of smaller industrial pollluters.
15 miles[+/-] to the west are three of the Finger Lakes; Cayuga Lake, Seneca Lake, and Skaneatlas Lake, [the purest fresh water lake in the country]. Skaneatlas Lake and Otisco Lake as well as Lake Ontario provide our drinking water as well as the northeast's most productive fisheries and recreational uses.
Here in Syracuse and our local towns we hold the honor of holding National Speed Boat Competitons, the National Bass Masters Tournament, National Water Skiing Shows,SU Rowing Regattas, as well as the International Carp Fishing Competitons and much more.
Now, all of the work done over the past 10years,[+/-] through super funds to minimize sewage runoff and corporate pollution is once again in jeopardy!
Allied Chemical/ Honeywell, [the new owners hired to clean and run], and now the NYS DEC want to remove unfathomable amounts of cubic yards of mercury laden, chlorinated bi-phenyls, toulene, benzene, pcbs and more from the bottom of Onondaga Lake! The Lake is about 4.5 miles long and approximately 1 mile wide and has an average depth of toxic sludge of about 30 feet deep across the entire lake. Dredging this sludge will disperse particulates of the lake sending toxic soup into the Seneca River which ties into the Oneida River which then runs into the Oswego River and straight into Lake Ontario!
Honeywells engineeers and the DEC that is supposed to protect our enviroment have quietly negotiated, [special town committee meetings on this, as well as many other meetings were held without public input or recorded meeting minutes], and have agreed to place the sludge in a former allied chemical soda ash waste bed.
The wastebed, known as SCA #13 is adjacent to the protected famous trout stream, NINE MILE CREEK and is less than 2 miles to the lake shore. The potential for leaching toxic chemicals back into the lake, is more than probable as the waste bed has already broken free of it's containment berms in the past, it is at a higher elevation sloping gently into the lake and adjacenet to NINE MILE CREEK that is already filed with toxic leachates from the waste beds to the lake shore. the geo-tube containment method of storage planned is experimental and designed to allow contaminated water to leach back into the soils surrounding the lake, supposedly to allow the sludge to dry and be covered for 'recreational use'.
The PROBLEM with this whole 'plan' is that it is the only proposed 'plan' as there is no 'plan b'. Less than 90 miles from this site is a federally monitored toxics landfill, but honeywell/Allied Chemical thought that removal to a FEDERALLY APPROVED SITE would be too expensive. Just 3-4 miles to the south of SCA #13 lies an abondoned limestone quarry on a rail spur. Geo-fabrics and concrete liners can contain this toxic soup due to the depth of the rock base, yet this idea is given no consideration because it 'might' be more expensive to the companies remediation plan.
Add to this danger the Exxon Mobil/Xto Energy deal to extract gas from the newly discovered reserves via a process known as hydro-fracking. a process wherein wells are drilled and a chemical mix with water is pressurized into the rock fractures to extract gas. This method, was allowed when the bush-cheney admin. excluded big oil and the chemicals used in this process in the 2005 Clean Water act. The NYS DEC apparently has no concerns for this because everyone from the governor to the state legislators down to the local beauracracy can only see dollar signs. People's drinking water wells from west virginia to pennsylvania have already been contaminated and the cause as acknowledged by the DEC is hydrofracking.
Big Oil representatives have already secured land leases from innocent property owners. Big oil land leases protect the companies from any liabilities for clean up placing that responsibility with apparently naive land owners. Operations require an average 5 mile wide clear cut through many old growth forests and farm land. Operational damages to the enviroment alone should be reason enough to stop this invasion, but our government sees only dollars to help out astronomical budget deficits of the most dysfunctional state government in U.S. history! There is no safe way to store the toxic by products and the oild companies know it, they are already looking for alternative storage options because of a grass roots out cry!
please help us! see the attached link below to learn of the SCA #13 catastrophe in the making. Check out Syracuse.com , search for hydrofracking; Syracuse.com/forums west for perspectives from the locals in Camilus, NY where the wastebeds are located.
please consider the possibility that government is no longer of the people, by the people or for the people...especially when corporate interests are at stake!!
won't you please consider signing our petition?http://cleancny.com/Home_Page.html
more hydrofacking links to follow. this is a national precedent playing out in communities across our state where government, once again fails to act in the interests of the people!
Thank you for your consideration, we hope you will make your voices known on our behalf....
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