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More citations for water pollution - they jest never learn

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Post by SamCogar Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:13 am

Yeager - Clean up mess

HOW many times do Kanawha County residents have to learn that their airport cannot follow basic environmental laws intended to prevent disturbed earth from sliding downhill in the rain, hurting Coonskin Park, altering streams and creating worse problems?

Yeager Airport was again cited for several more water pollution problems caused by the project to extend a runway and move a taxiway.

In March, Yeager officials agreed to a settlement with the state Department of Environmental Protection to fix drainage and erosion problems.

But on May 8, a DEP inspector found more erosion problems, including some that were identified in March but not corrected.

The inspector found that a road is eroding and proper ditch lines and water bars were not installed. The plan that Yeager and the DEP agreed to included no timeline.

Would that help? A simple timeline?

What a groundbreaking idea. Yeager and the DEP can now write deadlines for the airport to comply with state law. Then Airport Director Rick Atkinson can walk around the site every day to make sure the fixes are made according to schedule. Can it be that difficult?

This project has had problems since it started, when Atkinson assured the public that contractors were following all environmental laws, but they weren't.

When agencies act in the public's name, it is entirely reasonable to expect them to follow the public's laws.

http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/Editorials/200806040644

HA, AND YA THOUGHT THAT WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT A COAL COMPANY, .....

didn't ya. Razz Razz Razz

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Post by ziggy Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:45 am

I have been watchin' those airport mountain sides slide onto the Coonskin Park trail and Piedmont Road since they scalped all the trees and removed the stumps thereof about 4 years ago.

WV DEP is expecting Kanawha Airport to do the impossible- hold the hillside in place once the vegetation has been removed and nothing installed in its place to hold the mud from sliding downhill by the thousands of cubic yards a year.

The WV Coalition for Responsible Logging told the state Division of Forestry (DOF) when the trees were cut four years ago that this would happen. DOF Director Randy Dye told us then something like, "Don't worry, be happy, we've got it all under control".

Yeah, sure they do. We believe 'im. Sure they do.
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Post by SamCogar Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:35 am

ziggy wrote:I have been watchin' those airport mountain sides slide onto the Coonskin Park trail and Piedmont Road since they scalped all the trees and removed the stumps thereof about 4 years ago.

WV DEP is expecting Kanawha Airport to do the impossible- hold the hillside in place once the vegetation has been removed and nothing installed in its place to hold the mud from sliding downhill by the thousands of cubic yards a year.

The WV Coalition for Responsible Logging told the state Division of Forestry (DOF) when the trees were cut four years ago that this would happen. DOF Director Randy Dye told us then something like, "Don't worry, be happy, we've got it all under control".

Yeah, sure they do. We believe 'im. Sure they do.

But, .... but, .... but, .... but, .... but, .... but, .... but, .... Ziggy, ....

you are talking about the first ever "valley fill", ... completed in 1947, .... in the whole State of WV, are you not?

Geeeze, and here I wasa thinkin youse was dead set against MTR'ing and valley fills ......... and here your are concerned about and kinda protecting the oldest ones in the State.

Wonders never cease to amaze me. Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

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