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Join Your Neighbors
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: December 29, 2021, 1:11 pm
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Re: Join Your Neighbors
DIR By: Doug K
Date: February 14, 2022, 7:23 am
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Recently there have been several emails and letters sent out
regarding Erie Canal embankment maintenance & safety. Those
letter were sent to three Town Leaders in Pittsford, Brighton
and Perinton, who thought a lawsuit in 2018 was the best way to
address Embankment Safety of their respective townships.
The lawsuit questioned the motives of the Canal Corporation in
their Embankment Integrity effort, and also DENIED the simple
fact that unsafe earthen dams are a danger to any community. It
was driven by local social media pressure, that based their
whole case on the "denial" of the public safety issue with
unsafe embankments, going so far as to try and say the
embankments were not "really earthen dams".
The cause of that social media group, to "stop canal clearing" ,
has only served to divide canal communities over a topic that
should not be debateable... that topic is public safety.
Flash forward from 2018 to 2022...and the message is clear from
NYPA and the NYS Canal Corporation... trees & vegetation will be
removed from canal embankments for the safety of the public, and
the sustainability of the canal system.
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So it's clear now that the online petition, started by the Erie
Canal Neighbors Association, to give the public a voice in the
pursuit of safety, was a step in the right direction. To date,
our two petitions dedicated to the support of public safety and
clearing this unsafe, aging canal embankments have garnered just
short of 500 signatures total.
Here's the actual letter that was sent to the Town
Supervisors... it's very clear on two points.
1) Embankments will be cleared, because it's necessary for the
safety of the Public and Canal Communities
2) The Canal Corporation will be speaking with ELECTED OFFICIALS
moving forward, regarding canal maintenance in their towns,
social media interference is over.
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We are still collecting petition signatures, and the Canal
Corporation has been in discussion with the ECNA to use this
petition to drive the next location for Canal Embankment
Integrity work. Please help us, help you... sign our petition to
show you support public safety in your own community.
Read the latest update to the Embankment Clearing Petition here:
HTML https://www.change.org/p/join-your-neighbors-support-vegetation-removal-from-erie-canal-for-safety/u/30202391
Read a Forum post about what NYPA has said to New York State
here:
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Re: Join Your Neighbors
DIR By: Doug K
Date: April 6, 2022, 4:46 pm
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Our combined Erie Canal Embankment Maintenance Petitions have
hit a milestone today - 500 signatures.
Please, if you live within a couple miles of the Erie Canal, on
either the North side or the South, you should be signing this
petition to insure your home & family are safe.
Clearing invasive vegetation of these earthen embankments makes
them safe and also allows for better inspection by owners, NYS
Canal Corporation.
And it also allows for closer inspection of trouble areas, like
the one found on a recently cleared embankment near Gaines
Basin, NY
This section of canal embankment has to be rebuilt, to mitigate
excessive seepage found when they cleared the trees off in 2018,
part of the Embankment Integrity work.
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