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       What would you do if you had to Reimagine the NYS Canal System?
   DIR By: Doug K
       Date: January 27, 2020, 8:31 am
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       It's happening folks... and you should read about to be informed
       about what a 21st century canal might look like.
  HTML https://www.ny.gov/reimagine-canals-initiative/reimagine-canal-task-force
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       The ECNA supports this work slated for the overall NY State
       Canal System and ask the simple question... Why shouldn't you?
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       Reimagine the Fairport Oxbow Trail & Park
   DIR By: Doug K
       Date: January 29, 2020, 6:31 pm
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       The question is: "What would you do if you had to "reimagine"
       the NYS Canal System...
       The answer from people put to the task of answering that
       question can be found here:
  HTML http://www.canals.ny.gov/reimagine/TaskForceReport.pdf
       It's all part of the plan just released by the Reimagine Task
       Force and Governor.. you can find that here:
  HTML https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-29th-proposal-2020-state-state-300-million-plan-reimagine-iconic-erie
       After you look at a few ideas in that report the whole thing
       becomes easier... just take what you read and see if it fits for
       your own neighborhood along the NYS Canal. This work is being
       subsidized by new Canal Owners.. The New York Power Authority...
       or NYPA.
       Do you have a Guard Gate? It could become a new "skyway bridge"
       from one side of the canal to the other. No more walking to the
       nearest roads.. this opens up the trail to many.. along with the
       waterway. Just ask NYPA & Reimagine the Canals. We are in
       Brockport and will get the Prototype of this unique design.
       Do you have a Bridge in your Village... NYPA & Reimagine will
       get some nicer lighting schemes working. If you "Light It Up"..
       People WILL come.
       Do you have a natural stream or river culvert in your town?
       Reimagine can create a kayak waterway using water supplied from
       the Canal. The Village of Seneca Falls will soon become a
       "Kayaker Destination"... filling hotels & restaurants. And
       getting MORE people out enjoying the NYS Canal System.
       After reading this whole report, and I suggest anyone who lives
       near or neighboring the Canal do so, you will get your own
       ideas... tell us yours.
       Here's mine, and it's dedicated to Fairport & Perinton... based
       of the new Erie Canal Pocket Neighborhood.
       One of the really unique ideas I saw was the NYPA plan to take a
       piece of unused & neglected canal property, near a current
       village or town, and turn it from canal desolation to a canal
       "destination". Use what you have, a bit cleaned up for public
       use, and get people nearer to the water.
       Here's the one that will be done in Canastota...it looks
       wonderful. Make sure you see the enlarged "before" picture.
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       There is a place along the canal that is perfect for this.. and
       has a large underutilized public school right next to it... and
       it has a couple islands where a gazebo and walking path would be
       perfect. Some land would need to be cleared, and Fairport is
       sensitive to that a bit... but what you would get in
       return...amazing.
       Deer play there now... and you can fish all day. It's nice a
       shallow widewaters, perfect for wading in to launch your kayaks.
       It's a bit overgrown, some large trees block the view of the
       water..but it looks better than where the Canastota site
       looks...a bit more special.
       Just think how nice it would be if this transformation could
       occur. It's kind of overgrown, some locals think it could be
       made safer. It is also one of the most unique sections of the
       NYS Canal's main channel.. it runs almost directly north &
       south. Do you know where it is?
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       I'm speaking of the Oxbow Lake & Trail... Look in Fairport just
       west/south of town... where the water gets wide held back by the
       Oxbow Dam
       It would be a perfect place for this type of idea... don't you
       think? Should we do a poll to collect votes?
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