Posted by Wayne G. Barber
Can we intelligently risk the supply of a million gallons of water a day for the proposed power plant ?
My lawn crunches under my feet and my garden is bone dry. The caterpillars are dying from thirst.
Last September at the River Falls restaurant in Woonsocket below the south main street dam where the Ocean State Power Plant is already tapping for a source you could walk across the Blackstone River and Indian folklore states its a common summer event.
Remember the traffic cops and endless line of tanker trucks running 24 hours a day to keep the feeder pond full at Rt. 102 in North Smithfield across from the Fly Fishing Club. I do !
It actually created a trailer truck shortage in the tri-state region for construction jobs when the independent truckers had a choice of loads and wear and tear.
The Ocean State Power Plant is half the size of what is proposed.
How much less snow and rain fall in the winter of 2016 ?
California evacuated 35,000 citizens last summer with just one gas leak and had to learn on the job as the whole world watched it leak into our priceless air.
Massachusetts just lost overnight the recorded reports of over 1,000 gas leaks in their State scheduled for repairs by the classic ( Computer Glitch)
I work with all New England States and this is the Connecticut Press Release.
FYI – In case you haven’t seen this yet, below (and attached) is a news release issued late yesterday (6/27) by the Department of Public health (DPH) announcing a drought advisory. For your convenience I’ve also included the two fact sheets referenced in the release.
Department of Public Health
State Issues Drought Advisory
With precipitation across Connecticut down as much as six inches over the last 90 days, the Department of Public Health (DPH) today issued a Drought Advisory. It is recommended that customers of public water systems follow any water conservation recommendations that may be requested by their water utility and that businesses and residents served by private wells follow DPH’s water conservation advice.
"I want to emphasize that water levels in Connecticut’s larger reservoirs and water systems are perfectly fine at this point. There are currently no reports of any Community Public Water Systems triggering their emergency contingency plans due to below normal reservoir capacities. DPH continuously monitors our reservoirs, and we are not in a drought," added Dr. Pino. "However, we have not experienced as much rain as we typically do to this point in the year. Therefore people should be conscientious about their water consumption so that we don’t begin to experience drought conditions later this summer, particularly if rainfall continues to be below average."
"While the state’s public water supplies are still fine overall, some of our smaller systems across the state with lower yielding supplies may want to consider requesting water conservation measures from their customers," said DPH Commissioner Dr. Raul Pino. "If drier than usual conditions persist, we may see systems requesting conservation measures to protect their water supply. Accordingly, we are asking all residents to comply with any conservation recommendations issued by your water company and for well water customers to cut back on unnecessary water usage."
The Interagency Drought Advisory Workgroup, comprised of the Commissioners of DPH and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), and the Chairman of the Public Utility Regulatory Authority (PURA), monitors and analyzes water-related data to ensure that Connecticut’s water supplies remain stable. At a meeting of the Workgroup earlier today, it was determined that five of seven drought benchmarks had been met, triggering the state’s entry into the Drought Advisory Stage. Those benchmarks include: precipitation, groundwater, streamflow, Palmer Drought Index and fire danger. The remaining two benchmarks, reservoir levels and the Crop Moisture Index, have not been met. Drought Advisories were previously declared in 2002, 2007 and 2010. If conditions continue to decline, a Drought Watch would be issued.
The DPH water conservation fact sheet for businesses and residents on private wells can be accessed by clicking here.
The DPH’s "Drought Guidance for Consumers" of public water systems can be accessed by clicking here.
Concerned citizens, yes we have a growing town that we all love or would not live here. We have stable taxes, Bronco pride throughout New England, a paid up to date pension fund for those who came before us and a adequate source of natural resources, not a for sale sign for our drinkable water supply for a few dollars. Our Fire Departments Hazmet teams are good but the real professionals in this field are 1 hour away if and when we are going to need them. 244, 53ft. trailers of oil and ammonia by sub contractors at the lowest bid who will have a accident at some point will claim bankruptcy and we will have the consequences of the environmental damage.
The last Wild Turkey has harvested in Rhode Island in 1808 because of mankind's tragic mistakes.
On February 8, 1980 we released 29 wild turkey in the Town of Exeter that were trapped and transported from our neighbors from Vermont. Connecticut then helped us in 1983 and again in 1984 Three more sights received some flocks including Black Hut Management Area and West Greenwich and Little Compton. In 1995 we started are own trap and transfer to Foster, Scituate, Glocester.
We now have about 3,000 healthy birds in the Ocean State.
The birds will not set on eggs if disturbed by noise or vibration. Do you want to repeat our mistakes against nature and destroy these populations for all future generations and explain to your grandchildren why you let it happen twice ?
It is" OUR TOWN DAM IT !" Thank You, for reading this and for uniting anyway you can to stop this from happening in (God's Country ) our Home, Wayne G. Barber
