Sender: |
|
Date: |
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:50:54 EST |
Reply-To: |
|
Subject: |
|
MIME-Version: |
1.0 |
X-cc: |
|
Content-Transfer-Encoding: |
7bit |
Content-Type: |
text/plain; charset="us-ascii" |
From: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
An interesting listserv covering the waterfront is "Waterwire", organized out
of the Municipal Art Society. The first page of this week's issue follows.
Cross-posted by Christopher "I'm boycotting B-P until we haze new members"
Gray
BEGIN CROSS-POST:
> From: [log in to unmask] (Carter Craft)
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> W A T E R W I R E , December 2, 1999
>
> o SLUDGE: IT DOES THE DESERT GOOD?
> o WILL SLEEPY HOLLOW LEARN FROM SANDY HOOK?
> o SAVING WHAT'S LEFT; THE EASTERN DISTRICT TERMINAL SAGA
> o NJ COULD OPEN SENSITIVE LAND TO BUILDERS
> o CLEANING UP HUDSON RIVER CONFUSION
> o EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
> o CALENDAR
>
> oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
>
> o SLUDGE: IT DOES THE DESERT GOOD?
>
> For all the discussion about the 13+ million cubic yards of dredge "spoil"
> that will likely be generated by port expansion, there is relatively little
> consideration given locally to the sea of sludge produced by sewage
> treatment.
>
> As was noted recently in a bulletin posted by the Texas Employees for
> Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Texas Governor George Bush has
"quietly
> created the nation's largest dump for sewage sludge" in a small town on the
> border between Mexico and the US called, ironically, Sierra Blanca.
>
> Texas is now spreading more than 200 "wet" tons a day of human and
> industrial waste from New York City - nearly one fifth of all the Big
> Apple's sludge - on the ground outside of the town, an activity that has
> prompt a rash of health and odor complaints from nearby residents.
>
> It has been noted that the Big Apple sludge flowing to Texas contains an
>
|
|
|