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       Where does the money come from for Canal Embankment Repair?
   DIR By: Doug K
       Date: March 27, 2019, 5:20 pm
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       Read the title again: Where does the money come from for Canal
       Embankment Repair?
       Answer: Just like our own households..its this thing called a
       budget..LOL.
       If you hunt long enough you find the answer to every riddle..
       just have to read & think. Here's a summary of the 2016 NY
       Thruway & Canal Corporation Budget Review, the original is 78
       pages long and includes everything about what money goes where.
       Just like our own budgets.
  HTML http://www.canals.ny.gov/about/compliance/Budgetbook/2016-budget.pdf
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       2016 is the year that the Thruway had to answer the NYS
       Comptroller's request for Canal Improvements that was sent to
       them in May 2015.
       2016 was also the year that the Thruway decided to find a new
       "home" for the NY Canal Corporation, moving them to NYS Power
       Authority
       2016 is also the year that the NY Canal Corporation started
       getting it's allocations from the Transportation Act, up to $50
       million a year.
       So it looks like the Erie Canal embankment work being done
       statewide is all part of a MASTER plan that started 5 years ago
       to FIX the aging Canal. And now we learn that the Thruway had
       fully funded ALL of this capital improvement work before they
       gave the Canal to the NY Power Authority folks. It looks like
       many long standing safety issues are going to finally be
       addressed from storage reservoirs & dams in the Adirondack
       foothills to the raised Earthen Embankments that run through our
       towns & villages. It's about time, and welcome change.
       So those of you who hear people talking about "How much all this
       embankment dirt costs" or saying this work is "coming out of our
       pockets as taxpayers"... remind those "mis-informed" souls that
       the money is ALREADY there...  paid for in 2016 through end of
       2020.
       So enough already about money...
       Someone here said this along time ago... "There's no monetary
       value that can be placed on the loss of a human life, safety
       says we cannot allow that to happen".
       Oh yea that was the Canal Corporation when they started this Dam
       Journey.
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