Urgent! TODAY is the LAST DAY!! to write to the EPA!!

**Below is a letter to the EPA from a life long resident of Carroll Gardens and a CORD Co-Founder to the EPA Rita Miller:

Urgent! TODAY is the LAST DAY!! to write to the EPA!!

Do you want more of this in the Gowanus Canal?

Write to the EPA by MIDNIGHT SATURDAY:  this is the LAST DAY!!!

If you don't want this in the Gowanus Canal anymore write to the EPA and say:

"WE LOVE YOUR PLAN, EPA......JUST DO IT!"

signed, xxxxxxxx

Email your comments to:

e-mail: GowanusCanalComments.Region2@epa.gov

Or mail your comments to:

Christos Tsiamis, Project Manager

Central New York Remediation Section

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 290 Broadway, 20th Floor New York, New York 10007-1866

The deadline is TODAY.

JUST DO IT.

CORD

**Here is a letter to the EPA from a life long resident of Carroll Gardens and a CORD Co-Founder to the EPA Rita Miller:

"My name is Rita Miller. I am a third generation lifelong Carroll gardens resident and property owner living just a couple of blocks away from the Gowanus Canal.

I have served on the CAG since its inception representing CoRD, an organization I co-founded several years ago. I am also a member of FROGG, the larger South Brooklyn Coalition and the 2nd Place Community Transit Garden.

Other than the two residential properties I own on Second Place, I have no other holdings or business dealings in the community. I am, however very interested in the fate and future of the Canal. 

It is with a confident and enthusiastic heart that I offer my full support to your Proposed Plan. I totally approve of the Plan which accomplishes the goals we set together from the start--

---a clean and capped Canal bottom, a halt to toxic compound seepage into the water from the surrounding uplands and a solution that addresses, at their source, future chemical recontamination via the CSOs with a bonus for us to boot--since the proposed retention tank solution will alleviate the now constant unhealthy pathogen laden pollution of the canal as well.

Those tanks are the key to satisfying the community's and the CAG's well documented longing for the elimination of CSO discharges. And the proposed locations couldn't possibly be more thoughtful or logical.

I understand the need to disrupt some of the amenities offered currently at the MPG site location at Thomas Greene Park in order to accomplish the necessary upland and water remediation. I do not view this as "losing a park", as some have claimed. Instead, I see this as a positive and much needed cleanup of an unhealthy and unsafe area which unbelievably just happens to be used for recreation at the moment.

I have confidence that we, as a community, can work with EPA, NYS, NYC and National Grid to come up with first a temporary replacement and a more permanent solution later on, for the pool and whatever other amenities are necessary while the toxins are removed and the site's problems properly addressed.

 As a parent myself, I find the complete and total remediation of this recreational area an absolute necessity--anything short of that--a fruitless waste of time and money. Frankly, I cannot understand anyone taking a different position. What parent is happy knowing that their child is playing somewhere that is unfit, unsafe and unhealthy? What parent would advocate keeping that when the alternative is something so much better?

In regard to the CDF proposal, my understanding is that this one particular piece of the Proposed Plan will, as it should, be entirely up to the Red Hook Community.

In closing, I want to say that as both a CAG and individual community member I have found our EPA Region 2 team to be top notch in every way. I want to thank you for that.

 So, you go Region 2--- I eagerly await the Record of Decision and look forward to the Remedial Design phase. This has been the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to our community and I want to see it through to the end. Thank you again. Let's keep moving forward!"

Sincerely,

Rita Miller

Lifelong Carroll Gardens resident writes to the EPA

FRIDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO WRITE TO THE EPA!!

Here is a letter to the EPA from a life long resident of Carroll Gardens and a CORD Co-Founder to the EPA Rita Miller:

"My name is Rita Miller. I am a third generation lifelong Carroll gardens resident and property owner living just a couple of blocks away from the Gowanus Canal.

I have served on the CAG since its inception representing CoRD, an organization I co-founded several years ago. I am also a member of FROGG, the larger South Brooklyn Coalition and the 2nd Place Community Transit Garden.

Other than the two residential properties I own on Second Place, I have no other holdings or business dealings in the community. I am, however very interested in the fate and future of the Canal. 

It is with a confident and enthusiastic heart that I offer my full support to your Proposed Plan. I totally approve of the Plan which accomplishes the goals we set together from the start--

---a clean and capped Canal bottom, a halt to toxic compound seepage into the water from the surrounding uplands and a solution that addresses, at their source, future chemical recontamination via the CSOs with a bonus for us to boot--since the proposed retention tank solution will alleviate the now constant unhealthy pathogen laden pollution of the canal as well.

Those tanks are the key to satisfying the community's and the CAG's well documented longing for the elimination of CSO discharges. And the proposed locations couldn't possibly be more thoughtful or logical.

I understand the need to disrupt some of the amenities offered currently at the MPG site location at Thomas Greene Park in order to accomplish the necessary upland and water remediation. I do not view this as "losing a park", as some have claimed. Instead, I see this as a positive and much needed cleanup of an unhealthy and unsafe area which unbelievably just happens to be used for recreation at the moment.

I have confidence that we, as a community, can work with EPA, NYS, NYC and National Grid to come up with first a temporary replacement and a more permanent solution later on, for the pool and whatever other amenities are necessary while the toxins are removed and the site's problems properly addressed.

 As a parent myself, I find the complete and total remediation of this recreational area an absolute necessity--anything short of that--a fruitless waste of time and money. Frankly, I cannot understand anyone taking a different position. What parent is happy knowing that their child is playing somewhere that is unfit, unsafe and unhealthy? What parent would advocate keeping that when the alternative is something so much better?

In regard to the CDF proposal, my understanding is that this one particular piece of the Proposed Plan will, as it should, be entirely up to the Red Hook Community.

In closing, I want to say that as both a CAG and individual community member I have found our EPA Region 2 team to be top notch in every way. I want to thank you for that.

 So, you go Region 2--- I eagerly await the Record of Decision and look forward to the Remedial Design phase. This has been the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to our community and I want to see it through to the end. Thank you again. Let's keep moving forward!"

Sincerely,

Rita Miller

Urgent! FRIDAY is the LAST DAY!! to write to the EPA!!

 

Do you want more of this in the Gowanus Canal??  (see this disturbing poo poo tsunami video)

or the photo on the right:

Write to the EPA by Friday!  We only have 2 more days !

If you don't want this in the Gowanus Canal anymore write to the EPA and say:

"WE LOVE YOUR PLAN, EPA......JUST DO IT!"

signed, xxxxxxxx

Email your comments to:
e-mail: GowanusCanalComments.Region2@epa.gov

Or mail your comments to:

Christos Tsiamis
Project Manager
Central New York Remediation Section
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
290 Broadway, 20th Floor
New York, New York 10007-1866

The deadline is this Friday April 27.

JUST DO IT.

CORD
www.carrollgardenspetition.blogspot.com

Urgent! Only 2 MORE DAYS!! to write to the EPA!!

 

Do you want more of this in the Gowanus Canal??  (see this disturbing poo poo tsunami video)

or the photo on the right:

Write to the EPA by Friday!  We only have 2 more days !

If you don't want this in the Gowanus Canal anymore write to the EPA and say:

"WE LOVE YOUR PLAN, EPA......JUST DO IT!"

signed, xxxxxxxx

Email your comments to:
e-mail: GowanusCanalComments.Region2@epa.gov
 

Or mail your comments to:

Christos Tsiamis
Project Manager
Central New York Remediation Section
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
290 Broadway, 20th Floor
New York, New York 10007-1866

The deadline is this Friday April 27.

JUST DO IT.

CORD
www.carrollgardenspetition.blogspot.com

Please! Take one giant civic step forward for our neighborhood and send a "YES" email to the EPA by Friday April 27!

Do you remember the Gowanus Canal's Poo Poo Tsunami?  You SHOULD!  

It was a toxic and disgusting event fully illustrating the Gowanus Canal's CSO's (Combined Sewer Overflows) problem in video better than any full length lecture on the topic could ever do. The PMFA bog exclaimed:  "HOLY CRAP!" 

and featured the video.  

So did the Gothamist blog writing  "Gowanus Canal's Latest Gross Out"  featuring the video and Gowanus Canal's CSO's problem in our own backyard.  Gothamist wrote:  "The Brooklyn tornado took out a lot of trees earlier this month, but did you know it also transformed the Gowanus Canal into a flowing body of raw sewage? Check it out below, it's just like the chocolate river in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory except—strike that, reverse it—it is not at all like the chocolate river in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. [Warning: You may want to watch this after lunch.]"

http://gothamist.com/2010/09/27/video_gowanus_canal_will_consume_us.php

We also featured and re-featured the Gowanus Canal Poo Poo Tsunai video here at CORD 
writing A Poo Poo Tsunami hits the Goanwus Canal and other cr---y news.

Do we, the residents of the Gowanus Canal area, want the Gowanus Canal to have any more poo poo tsunamis???  Of course not!  The EPA's Proposed PRAP (Plan to Clean Up the Gowanus Canal) currently includes the treatment of the CSO problem.  We are extremely fortunate to have the EPA propose to clean the CSO's in our Gowanus Canal as well as the toxic sediment there.  In fact the CSO's in the Gowanus Canal become toxins as they combined with the chemical contaminants in the Canal making for a toxic poo poo.

If you would like to see the CSO's problem addressed along with the other chemical contamination in the Gowanus Canal, you must speak up by the Friday April 27 deadline. You must make your voice heard this week.  

We at CORD urge you to:  PLEASE!

Take one giant civic step forward for our neighborhood and send a "YES" email to the EPA!

You can say something like:

Dear Mr. Tsiamis:

No more Poo Poo Tsunamis!

I like love your plan to clean the Gowanus Canal AS IS and I want the EPA to JUST DO IT!

Clean the entire canal including the CSO's!

Sincerely yours, 

xxxxxxxxx

Mail your comments to:
Christos Tsiamis
Project Manager
Central New York Remediation Section
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
290 Broadway, 20th Floor
New York, New York 10007-1866

Or email your comments to:
e-mail: GowanusCanalComments.Region2@epa.gov

OR, contact 

Natalie Loney, Community Involvement Coordinator, at 212-637-3639, loney.natalie@epa.gov.

The deadline is this Friday April 27.

JUST DO IT. 

CORD

The Clock is Ticking......Just Do It!! Send your comments to the EPA!

The clock is ticking...

Have you written your EPA response yet?

Here is a beautifully written letter written by a local resident who expresses precisely what we at CORD feel about the EPA plan to clean-up the Gowanus Canal:

JUST DO IT!!!!

Remember the deadline is:  
April 27, 2013.

Mail your comments to:
Christos Tsiamis
Project Manager
Central New York Remediation Section
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
290 Broadway, 20th Floor
New York, New York 10007-1866
e-mail: GowanusCanalComments.Region2@epa.gov

OR, contact Natalie Loney, Community Involvement Coordinator, at 212-637-3639, loney.natalie@epa.gov.



Letter from our neighbor: 

April 10, 2013

Mr. Christos Tsiamis

Project Manager

Central New York Remediation Section

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

290 Broadway, 20^th Floor

New York, NY 10007-1866

Dear Mr. Tsiamis:

Words cannot fully express my gratitude I have for you and your (Region 2) team. Your expertise and passion in doing the right thing to protect our environment and the overall health and safety of this community have been proven many times over with your dedicated and transparent commitment in working closely with us and helping us to understand the full Superfund process.

Scientifically technical and politically sensitive, you and your team were there to clarify and balance the differences and to unite a community toward a comprehensive cleanup so desperately and deservingly due.

To find a place you can call home is a rare find. To find a place with selfless, generous, caring community-minded people is a blessing. I have been fortunate to come across both and now triple-blessed to have you and your team a part of it.

I wholeheartedly support the PRAP and deeply believe and trust you and your team will thoroughly clean and protect the Gowanus Canal for us now and all future generations to come.

With the deepest respect and thanks,

Maryann Young

Carroll Gardens Resident and Condo Owner

Active Community Members

Alternate member to the Gowanus Canal Superfund Community Advisory Group

Friends of CORD, FROGG and DSCBBB (Developing Stronger Brooklyn Communities Block by Block)

Urgent! Toddlers for LICH/Long Island College Hospital

Hello from CORD.  Please read this message from one of our neighbors in Cobble Hill:


"Dear Neighbors,

Please share this announcement from Claire Tuck, a neighbor whose daughter
was born at LICH:

Come and support LICH and LICH park!

Many of us have either had a baby at LICH, plan to have a baby at LICH or
have taken our kids to LICH for medical care. Most if not all of us have
enjoyed LICH park. LICH is now seriously threatened as the State of New
York wants to sell off this property and turn it into a high-rise condo.
This Saturday, April 13 at 10 am come to LICH park (for toddlers) on Henry
St near Amity St.
We will rally in support of LICH and then go on a stroller march to Court
St.!
Governor Cuomo can save our hospital - or close it.
Bring signs, your kids and yourself!
We cannot let our neighborhood hospital be turned into a huge condo
building.
Thanks everyone- spread the word to parents.
Please RSVP to clairektuck@gmail.com so we have a sense of how many people
are coming."

Claire K. Tuck

Michelle Green
Assistant Director for Special Projects
New York State Nurses Association
120 Wall Street
New York, NY 1007
212 785 0157 x175
718 714 8863 (cell)=

CG CORD Comment on the EPA Proposed Gowanus Canal Clean-Up Plan

CG CORD/Carroll Gardens Coalition for Respectful Development

www.carrollgardenspetition.blogspot.com

Brooklyn, NY

March 28, 2013

CG CORD Comment on the EPA Proposed Gowanus Canal Clean-Up Plan
http://www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/gowanus/pdf/gowanus_prap.pdf

We at CORD, the Carroll Gardens Coalition for Respectful Development wish to begin by thanking our "team" at Region 2 for their leadership, transparency and timeliness. But most of all, we wish to express our gratitude for their clear and ever present dedication to our Community.

We are very supportive of the Proposed Plan. We are delighted with the inclusion of the retention tanks. We totally support the suggested locations of those tanks,  the "salt lot" on Second Avenue, and under the former MGP site at the head of the Canal, AKA Thomas Greene Park. 

It is our sincere wish that the retention tank system be implemented. 

We see the New York City Long Term Control Plan mentioned many many times in the PRAP. In our experience, the City of New York has fallen short on most if not all of their promises regarding the Gowanus Canal and we see no reason to believe that their track record will improve anytime soon. With that in mind, we feel that the retention tank system is the only logical way to appropriately address the problems brought on by the CSO's. Any additional improvements/benefit  that may  eventually be enjoyed city wide by the NYC LTCP will be much appreciated icing on the cake--

Regarding the CDF/Red Hook Facility suggestion- we stand solidly behind the wishes of our neighbors in the Red Hook Community. We want whatever they want.

CG CORD Co-Founders:

Lucy DeCarlo

Rita Miller

Triada Samaras

Brooklyn Fights for Its Life But Sees Death on the Way to the Hospital

Hello from CORD!

This urgent letter is from our friend Roy Sloane and the Cobble Hill Association:

"Hi all,

We need your help to help save LICH!

As you all all aware, SUNY Downstate is moving forward with it's plans to close LICH to convert it's real estate valued at $500 to $800 million into cash to prop up the immense loses at SUNY Downstate. Since the beginnIng of this crisis, I have asked every doctor, nurse, EMT, ambulance driver and paramedic this question: "Will people die?"

The answer from every single professional that I have asked is "Yes!" To dramatize this danger, the Cobble Hill Association has created a TV commercial called "LICH Two Minutes to Live" and will be launching our campaign on of thirty second spots on NEW YORK ONE this week.

This proposed closure of our hospital represents a grave danger for for all the nearly 1 million people who live, work, shop, and play in Downtown Brooklyn but most especially for the residents of the surrounding communities who depend on Long Island College Hospital for critical emergency care. Going further to get to another hospital spells disaster or death for many stroke, cardiac and accident victims.

To help us call attention to this danger, we are asking for your help in posting this spot on your blog or web site along with a call to action requesting that all citizens to call Governor Cuomo today at 518-474-8390 or to send an email to Cuomo at: www.governor.ny.gov/contact/Go

vernorContactForm.php

For more information, go to the Doctors website: www.lichmedicalstaff.org
or to the Cobble Hill Association website: http://cobblehillassociation.blogspot.com/

Here's the link to the spot on Youtube, if you would prefer to distribute a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-fCiCUg_VM

I am also including the following attachments to help provide an important fact base and timeline, key point and a press release with quotes about the making of our commercial.

Attachments: “Two Minutes to Live” :30
LICH and SUNY facts provided by CHA.pdf
LICH-Seven Key Points Fact Sheet.pdf

Thank you for your help in getting this important message out to our community residents."

Roy Sloane
718-624-4067