We need a weather break here. With a light snow winter, the relative lack of rain is keeping things at foot-level crispy. And the humidity is wrapping me in a cloak of torpor. Sitting atop more than our share of potable water, we are very lucky but, still, we need the rain!
While out on my morning bike rides I have been watching teams working along the banks of the Upper Hudson, grooming and planting in the marshy shore areas:
I did send you a snapshot of a similar scene in my "Leave It to Beaver the Riverkeeper" message but it may have been lost in my accolades for their instinctive keep-rivers-clean-and-healthy lifestyle.
It makes sense, they live in the water.
Wait. We need clean water to live. Why don't we care for our life-source as well?
Just today it was reported that our New York State law-makers are beyond planning not to think about whether to discuss public-health issues and have advanced the clean water cause to the top of a future agenda, reversing themselves for some reason.
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We have seen politicians stall. And we have seen the EPA act.
If the Hudson merits shoreline grooming, it surely merits a better and more complete job of chemical clean-up.
The work began because it is important and the job should move farther forward for exactly the same reason.
We have read your thoughts on the importance of clean water, Gina. Please help the PCB removal project then we can re-plant greenery along America's Most Beautiful Superfund Site.