Author Topic: NYSCC to Inspect & Repair Monroe County Sluice Gates - General Announcement  (Read 97 times)

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Some time ago, with the start of Canal Embankment Repairs in Monroe County, some of  "the public" (on Facebook) went on the record stating that the New York State Canal Corporation needed to be "proactive" with their communication methods.

They asked for a more timely dispensing of information to happen, especially when it come to earthen embankment clearing.

And this week the NYS Canal Corporation put this announcements up on Twitter, and Facebook, about some Canal Embankment features that will be inspected, which would include "clearing" that was NOT part of their Earthen Embankment work, but needed to occur so that the Sate of New York could do it's job, making the Canal System safe.



FACEBOOK MESSAGE




 
TWITTER MESSAGE




And in true form, the local Perinton opposition group (that asked for the communication to be improved) NOW THINKS that means DIRECTLY contacting the Facebook Group's CO-FOUNDER with a "personal courtesy call". Here's is what that individual posted today... as if the Twitter & Facebook messages weren't adequate enough...for the rest of the public.





It appears that the "new" Public Engagement Director, one Ms. Rebecca Hughes, has now become the "Target of the Month" for the Stop the Canal Clear-cut Co-Founder. I'm sure that September's "NYCC Enemy of the Month", Mr Dave Mellen, is glad they stopped blaming him for everything  this Facebook group says they don't like about Erie Canal Embankment public safety.

Because, for some reason this group NOW believes they should receive "preferential treatment", and have DIRECT discussions with the NYSCC, for any maintenance done.

It appears that a Facebook post, or Tweet on Twitter isn't acceptable communication now, for this Facebook group.

Their Leaders are expecting more... even though they rarely listen to or believe what they are being told by the Canal folks. These announcements were exactly what the Canal Corporation said was coming, at their last public meeting with this FB group in Perinton, just last month. I guess it's either short term memory loss, or maybe senility, that now invades this Facebook Group.


This has now become yet another request from Ms Agte, that she's now going to complain about, because it was not handled "exactly" the way she wanted...


Good Grief! How long before Perinton comes to it's senses and stops thinking this Facebook group is helping their safety, or canal... because they aren't.

They have already cost Perinton any possibility of getting the same Barrier Planting that Brockport received with their Earthen Embankment Maintenance Clearing

They have already cost NY taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra costs to perform a SEQR study that just repeated earlier Environmental findings on dam safety

They have delayed the repair of 100s of miles of unsafe earthen dams, for 3 additional years, that has only increased the public safety risk to the public outlined in a 2014 report.


And now they seem intent on showing the Canal Corporation, and Greater Rochester, that the Perinton Community cares little about public safety, and only wants to pacify yet another reckless Facebook group that propagates  misinformation and holds to their own conspiracy theories.

Shame on the community for not standing up to these folks, but it's even worse when it divides the Town Government and also pits Village against Town in the cause of "public safety".

If residents stood in the way of a neighboring property owner, who was trying to fix a public safety issue on their own property,  that kind of behavior would not be tolerated by any local government, or code enforcement officer. But not in Perinton, in fact some members on the Town Board in Perinton, see nothing wrong with standing in front of a State-Sponsored Earthen Dam Safety Program.

And some upcoming candidates for office are also ignoring their responsibility to the general public they would serve if elected, just to pacify a social meeting group on Facebook. For what reason?... Votes? Can you say...pathetic?

What a mess Perinton is in... don't you think?

Civil War along the Canal

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Agte = narcissist extraordinaire!

Why on earth does this woman think the NYCC should contact her because they want to trim a few leaves or repair a patch of concrete?

She's out of control, a complete crackpot.



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The original post on our Forum showed a Facebook Post, by a group in Perinton, that somehow believes they should be contacted DIRECTLY when any and all work is being done along the Erie Canal these days.

The group's founder" stated she wasn't phoned directly by the new Communication director for the Embankment Integrity work, about this TOTALLY UNRELATED canal maintenance. She was quite taken aback, and of course lively Facebook banter ensued.

Now it appears that the new "purpose" of this Facebook Group is not to Stop the Canal Clear-Cut after all.

Instead they think they should simply Stop the Canal Corporation... period!

Stop them from performing needed Canal Embankment Safety Work

Stop them from evaluating their Cement Dams along the Embankments, called Sluice Gates, of which many are classified "high hazard" according to the NYS Dam Registry

Stop them from telling the truth about the Erie Canal, that it is a high hazard canal system that has many communities under threat of earthen dam collapse.




Here's the latest on this Sluice/Spillway Embankment Core Sample work from the Facebook Opposition in Perinton.






And MORE of those COMMENTS:





Now you ask why I'm pointing this out perhaps?

Well it's because the Group Co-Founder, one Ms. Elizabeth Agte, originally posted that she wanted a "personal" message service for all this work from the NYSCC. And at the same TIME the group discussed this work, just a couple weeks ago. And the regular members stated PLAINLY to Ms Agte, and the rest of the Facebook Group membership, that this work was part of maintenance and NOT that big of an "impact" to the Canal Embankment or Trail.

No canal devastation, no horrific maintenance work zone, just a "minimal disruption & small imprint" according to one Facebook member.

Here's a copy of that STCC discussion on Facebook




So the question is why does this group still feel the need to whine, **** and complain about something that doesn't affect Canal Embankment Clearing?

And the only plausible answer, they must feel they have "entitlement & privilege"


A special note for those reading:

Pittsford, Perinton & Brighton are the ONLY Towns that have citizens whining about "Canal Safety Work"... which is ironic, since many MEMBERS of this Facebook Group (called the Stop the Canal Clear-cut) are always posting "Follow the Money" about whatever the Canal Corporation or New York Power Authority try to do to fix the Canal System.

Hey, lets follow the Monroe County money... why it's agreed that it's on the Eastside right? Between the City of Rochester and the County Line... right?

Bingo... Pittsford, Brighton AND Perinton. Isn't entitlement in action just lovely?


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