This mornings post by Ms Agte is L O N G !  I was almost in tears (I jest) after reading this.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/374651252977621
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She says -in the five years that NYPA has been in control of the Canal Corporation, they have over-reached, and illegally mismanaged. And have spent countless hours and dollars trying to misdirect and obfuscate their intention not to include stakeholders, communities, scientists, or environmental experts in the decision making process, because they have no intention of being caretakers, they only want be directors of their own narrow vision.

I take issue with this because the NYPA has included ALL these people, especially the scientists and environmental experts, it's all spelled out in the EEIP documentation Agte & the STCC asked for when they brought a law suit against the NYPA.

Trouble is, the STCC just doesn't like the answers they received. It's not how they thought all this would end.

Laughable really!

And of course, when she receives opposition, it's 'bullying' and 'thinly veiled threats'  and 'angry language'. I particularly liked the comment 'mistruths'! 

 From the Queen of mistruths herself no less.

Note also that the NY Governor has turned her back on Ms Agte's organisation, as have one or two other politicians. Others have 'gone quiet' perhaps showing their initial enthusiasm was a little too hasty?

And no comment by Ms Agte on our little advertising campaign for our petition at www.change.org/ErieCanalDam

We sent 120 letters and postcards to folks living in the dam hazard zone and a large advert in the Pennysaver that reached 20,000 people.

You would have thought that would have raised an eyebrow or two at the STCC?

Methinks this is the writing on the wall for Ms Agte. Perhaps she won't now get her bronze plaque at the end of the embankment, unlike Louise Slaughter who has one at Hart's Woods for 'saving' the woods?

So, I'll leave her name off.  One of the STCC members posted this recently.

"I am NOT SIGNING THIS PETITION Because it is a bunch of lies. It is not a Dam, It is an embankment.. The state is using scare tactics to get you to sign. Learn the truth. Go to our Facebook page "STOP THE CANAL CLEAR CUT".  We need trees more than ever these days. They are the lunges of the planet, cleaning the air we all breath. The Canal Corp. wants to take the easy way out. They have to maintain the canal and they want to do it the easiest way possible. Strip the land, increase erosion, Destroy the beauty, and make it easier for them to maintain."

Firstly, I think she did sign the petition, otherwise  this wouldn't have been posted.

And here we go again, "It's not a dam etc. etc"  I doubt this person has any dam engineering qualifications whatsoever, so here are the basics to determine if its a dam, or not.

Is it a raised embankment?  YES
Does it have RIP-RAP? (That's big jagged stones) YES
Is it impounding water? YES
Does it have SPILLWAYS? YES
Does it have a PHREATIC LINE?  YES
Do it's owners consider it to be a dam? YES
Does it have SEEPAGE & LEAKS?  YES

Then folks, it's a dam!

AND the State never put these ads up, the ECNA did!

She said "Will you learn the truth at the STCC?" Oh! My aching sides!  :-)

We need trees more than ever! Of course, but not on a DANGEROUS, OLD, BADLY DESIGNED, EVEN WORSE MAINTAINED EARTHEN EMBANKMENT DAM.

Finally - Beauty? Ragged old Cottonwoods, dropping branches everywhere, and all sorts of illegal, controlled species of brush and weeds everywhere? You call that beauty?