The Camillus Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring an Earth Day Cleanup. It is scheduled for Saturday, April 30th 2011 from 8:45-noon. Meeting at the Sim’s store parking lot.
If you would like to participate for a great cause, call 315 433-9015 or email mcapogreco@sylvanlearningcenter.org to sign up.
“Without a net, he struggled for 10 minutes reeling in this 9- pound brown trout, caught with a salted minnow,”
http://blog.syracuse.com/outdoors/2011/04/camillus_boy_12_catches_monste.html
Lead CPWG Chair Dereth Glance, who is the Executive Program Director at Citizens Campaign for the Environment and Clean Water Network Board Treasurer, was recently appointed by President Obama to be a Commissioner with the International Joint Commission at the Department of State.
A number of local officials from various groups including Town Councilors Bill Davern and Mark Kolinski visited the Ottawa River site in Toledo, Ohio which has many similarities to the project headed to Wastebed 13 in Camillus. The Ottawa River site is about 1500 feet from residents with a similar composition of sediment, although a much smaller scale.
The DEC has issed a press release detailing the settlement with Honeywell to close waste beds 9 – 15.
“This is a good settlement for the environment and for the people of Central New York,” said DEC Regional Director Kenneth Lynch. “It not only mandates the closure of the waste beds but also sets forth a plan for reclaiming the land using a „green remedy.‟ Further, Honeywell is obligated to fund a wide range of environmental benefit projects that will address ongoing issues and improve recreational opportunities.”
Honeywell and NYSDEC have reached agreements on many items
There is more to this agreement than closing the 670 acre wastebed. Some other items include;
- Allowing fishing in Nine Mile Creek for at least 5 years,
- Pay Camillus up to $50,000 a year for six years for engineering fees,
- Build a boat Launch
- Address the mud boil issue
Honeywell is scheduled to begin work to prepare wastebed 13 starting Sept.6. The main areas affected will be Gere Lock Road and Horan Rd. Contrustion and trucks will will run 7am to 5pm Monday-Friday.
Mobilization and initial construction activities such as fence repair, equipment deliveries, and site mobilization are underway. Starting the week of September 6, the following 2010 construction activities will begin:
Site Preparation and Clearing – Road upgrades, surveying and above-ground site clearing.
Water Treatment Plant Preloading – Placement of clean fill material on the footprint of the future water treatment plant area to achieve local soil compaction and expedite settlement prior to construction of the actual building and installation of equipment.
Water Treatment Plant Building Foundation Preparation – Construction in support of the foundation for the water treatment plant.
SCA Construction and Instrumentation – Berm construction with clean fill materials, partial placement of the composite liner system (clean gravel drainage layer, clean low permeability soil, and geomembrane liner), limited excavation in the wastebed material for the sump area, and management of construction water.
This work is detailed in the Onondaga Lake Water Treatment Plant Preloading and Sediment Consolidation Area 2010 Construction Work Plan, which is available online
You can read the rest at the DEC site.
The full health and safty plan on for preloading and construction is available at the towns site. http://townofcamillus.com/documents/1211.pdf
In a letter to the EPA dated July 29th, Sen. Schumer, Gillibrand and Rep. Maffei ask EPA to delay Wastebed 13 plans for 6 months in for time to look at “green technologies” in dealing with the sediment.
“One only has to attend any town meeting or forum to understand the emotions this project engenders among residents”.
The entire document is attached but the above statement stuck as odd. None of the above officials have ever attended one of our town board meetings ever – regardless if it was about Wastebed 13 or the SCA. Mr. Maffei did attend a portion of the EPA’s meeting on 7/8 where the EPA and DEC stated that they had looked at the “Green” proposals and determined they were ineffective, inappropriate or not scaleable to this situation. They also stated the proposed SCA was safe for all residents and therefore no compeling reason to look at boutique solutions.
In July, Rep. Maffei and Sen. Gilibrand have co-sponsored a bill will take control of the Onondaga Lake Clean up project away from the DEC and Army Core of Engineers and local towns and give it to the EPA as oversight with Themselves, The Cty of Syracuse and The Onondaga Nation a seat at the table.
So if they believe in the EPA that much and the EPA says it is safe – why the letter requesting a delay the planned August Construction and delay it past November when it would be harder to build?
Oh, wait there are election in November… Naw our representatives wouldn’t use electioneering to play on the emotions of the town, would they?
Anyway, give it a read for yourself.
For those who could not attend the EPA has released a summary of frequently asked questions compiled from the July 8 public information session on the Human Health Risk Assessment for the Sediment Consolidation Area at Wastebed 13.
It is available for download on EPA’s website hhra_qa080210.pdf
The document has 32 of the questions submitted by attendees and repsonses given by the EPA.
EPA’s Human Health Risk Assessment presentation regarding Wastebed 13 and the SCA project that was given July 8th at the public meeting in the Martha Eddy room is now available for download on the agency’s website at. It is a large file to download, but worth the read if only for the maps.
Here is the Direct link to the presentation. and this is to all the documents
