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Welcome to the Erie Canal Neighbors Association Forum
DIR By: Create A Forum
Date: June 15, 2018, 12:58 pm
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Welcome to The Erie Canal Neighbors Forum... Now OPEN to Members
& Guests Comments & Posts, come join the conversation.
The objective of the Erie Canal Neighbors Association, ECNA for
short, is to give NY Residents and Property Owners who live
alongside or near the Erie Canal & Trailway a place where they
can discuss problems associated with the new Earthen Embankment
Integrity Program (EEIP). If your property borders the Erie
Canal this safety project will affect your life quite a bit...
share your story.
In addition there is also a large amount of information in the
ECNA forum regarding the first Earthen Embankment Remediation
Project, known as EERP, that the NY Canal Corporation has
undertaken to address safety issues on Canal Embankment. Many in
Brockport to Middleport are in their third year of Embankment
Repair...we can learn quite a bit from these folks.
There are several types of Erie Canal Property owners, those
that live directly adjacent to an Embankment Dam, and those who
live along any other section of the canal shoreline. In addition
there are others who live in high hazard zones beneath these
dams will also have a voice here. Finally, we'd like to
encourage the general public to regard this forum as a place to
ask questions and get factual answers.
This is a place to unite us all and insure our concerns &
objectives as Erie Canal Neighbors are addressed or met.
The forum is linked to
HTML https://ecna.us/
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General standards of good behavior apply in this website,
Gentlemanly civility is mandatory. All are welcome to comment or
post topics as Guests until that privilege is abused.
If you want to join the ECNA after "kicking the tires" as a
Guest, you are welcome. If you want to remain "anonymous" as a
guest we have created a GUEST email address that anyone can use.
Guest@ENCA.US
September 1, 2020 Update: We have removed the Email requirement
for Guests to add comments, we are hoping that more people will
engage in these topics on here. But if this becomes an annoyance
we will simply un-check the new box that Wordpress gave us in
the latest upgrade.
Of course guests have limited Forum Permissions, always better
to be a Member, If you do signup you will be asked for Real Name
& Address, along with a valid email to gain access to the
following boards that will be for verified members only.
Property Owners in a Dam Hazard Zone
Property Owners On Embankment Dams
Property Owners Adjacent to Erie Canal
NYS Parks & Trails Adopt-a-Trail Volunteers (ECNA based)
We also have a few Forum Boards that are "hidden" from guest
viewing. These are for internal ECNA conversations and are based
on member participation. If you post in the Forum, actually get
into the conversation actively, you will open up even more
boards as your post count grows.
Some forum boards are visible to you if you fill out our online
Information ECNA Member Form and your user name is added to the
appropriate group based on the supplied information.
HTML https://form.jotform.com/81665747584169
Thank you for supporting the ECNA, and for joining the
conversation. Have a good time and looking forward to hearing
from you all
The ECNA Forum Moderators
Mike C & Doug K
ECNA Co-Founders
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Re: The Erie Canal Neighbors Forum
DIR By: Doug K
Date: July 16, 2018, 6:27 pm
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Link to the ECNA Neighbor Information Online Form, you can use
this to gain access to Additional ECNA Forum Boards specific to
your type of neighborhood
HTML https://form.jotform.com/81665747584169
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Re: Welcome to the Erie Canal Neighbors Association Forum
DIR By: Tire Kicker
Date: October 4, 2019, 11:30 am
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Thank you ECNA for the email address to use for guest login.
Seems to work from my PC better than phone because of the
security features on email verification but I manage to write
this post. I will look around & kick the tires as you put it.
May join as a member, this canal project hits our home soon.
Couple of questions:
I assume the difference between guest & member is also that
members login once to leave as many post as they like?
What do you do with the information on your Member form?
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Re: Welcome to the Erie Canal Neighbors Association Forum
DIR By: Doug K
Date: October 4, 2019, 12:50 pm
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Thank You Kicker
Mike & I have been looking at this CreateaForum now for awhile,
fixing things that don't work right for ECNA Guests, enabling
more content for it's Members. Here's the answers to your
questions:
Members can do more than guests, mostly in posting. Members can
share pictures in posts as well, guest logins allow text only.
From the forum point of view... we allows Guests to have 6
permissions, members get 26. We know some guests and they say
the most annoying thing is the login. Members login once, and
can come and go posting, answering polls, and asking questions
or starting new topics. Guest have to verify each time and also
are thrown a Captiva puzzle to prove you are not a bot spam
mailer.
As for the ECNA Member form, it's also an available online tool
that we made to capture minimal amount of info on members. This
allows us to put you into another group with neighbors similar
to your circumstances. If you live alongside the canal and trail
your life is different than other neighbors living on the
opposite side or below in a flood zone. We thought it would be a
good feature for members to compare notes on how other canal
neighbors are faring. Here's what those Member Boards look like:
Under the Main Forum Board marked with the Arrow, members have
these sub-forums to discuss similar issues they may see having
the Erie Canal as a neighbor
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These Forum Boards are based on where members live or how old
their properties are, each will be influenced differently with
safer embankments
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One example we hear over and over...Many Canal Neighbors have
water issues, sump pumps run continuously, water in basements
and pooling in yards. Some of us Canalside Neighbors have
figured out how to make that go away. And you can now work with
the NYPA owned Canal Corp to get this common earthen dam issue
fixed. In fact I am one of those who fixed the "leaky dam"
problem here.
We welcome any ideas you might have. It's a little tough, we are
both "old dogs" and how this Forum works is new. As the
Embankment Integrity Program moves East to the Middle & Eastern
sections of the Barge Canal, there will be more Neighbors
getting involved, with different issues than ours, but will
benefit from having a little history about how this work
started.
Thanks again for visiting, hope you become a member soon
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Updated ECNA Website is up and running, Check it out
DIR By: Doug K
Date: February 16, 2020, 7:09 pm
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It's finally coming together, if you haven't seen it take a
look, the new "improved" Erie Canal Neighbor's Association
website
HTML https://ecna.us/
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Welcome to the ECNA Forum - All Time Top Forum Posts
DIR By: Doug K
Date: November 1, 2020, 12:09 pm
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Hello to All, thanks for your support and for taking the time to
see what the ECNA is all about. This post is one of many you
will find on this Forum, hopefully you will take a look at more.
We try to stay on matters that concern Erie Canal Neighbors the
most, and those topics change quite often.
In most cases the discussions are meant to help Erie neighbors
understand that they are very unique living next to the Canal,
and many issues we have aren't shared with other neighborhoods..
that don't have a local recreational trail right next to them or
leaking unsafe dams hovering overhead.
From time to time we reply to this particular post, just to
insure that it is always remains located at the top of our ECNA
Discussion List on our main Forum Board. In all of our
Discussion boards in this ECNA Forum, the most popular topics
and posts always rise to the top using the number of views that
it receives. You can see that when you look at any one of the
dozen ort so board we have here.
This reply will be dedicated to the CREAM of the "cream of the
crop".. those few posts that have soared in readership on our
Forum.
Here's a few posts that are well worth the read, many have been
read and shared on other social media platforms that drive our
overall views.
Posts with over 500 Views
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/general-discussion/erie-canal-embankment-safety-a-clear-case-of-definition/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/eerp-phase-3-discussion-board-evergreen-barrier-planting/erie-canal-embankment-trail-work-is-now-complete-see-the-latest-pictures/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/reimagine-the-canals/what-a-surprise/
Post with over 200 Views
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/general-discussion/a-european-twist-on-if-you-get-covid-what-to-do!/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/perinton-canal-embankment-discussion/ny-canal-corporation-video-regarding-erie-canal-safety-in-perinton/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/erie-canal-embankment-integrity-program-(eip)/erie-canal-embankments-safety-fema-it's-all-about-risk/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/the-stop-the-clearcut-argument/once-again-another-'expert'-weighs-in-from-stop-the-clear-cut-group/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/perinton-canal-embankment-discussion/an-important-update-on-the-erie-canal-this-effects-more-people-than-ever/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/the-stop-the-clearcut-argument/janice-gouldthorpe's-the-stcc-opinion-of-the-canal-corp-perinton-embankment-vide/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/perinton-canal-embankment-discussion/should-pittsford-brighton-perinton-reconsider-their-fight-against-erie-canal-emb/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/general-discussion/nys-canal-corporation-must-clear-canal-embankments-reason-1/
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/the-stop-the-clearcut-argument/big-misconception-of-clear-cutting-by-the-public-stcc/
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Re: Welcome to the Erie Canal Neighbors Association Forum
DIR By: Doug K
Date: July 12, 2024, 8:36 am
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Posting to move this topic back to the Top of the List.
After 6 years online, educating the public about Erie Canal
Embankment Safety, we have some necessary housekeeping to do.
Hopefully the NYS Canal Authority will restart their much needed
Earthen Dam Remediation work soon, and restore safety to Erie
Canal Neighbors and surrounding communities so that Mike & I can
go back to our regular 'jobs' of enjoying retirement and
watching Canal Life go by.
Thanks to everyone for listening and understanding how important
public safety is around this aging landmark called The Erie
Canal
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