From the Times Ledger:The U.S. Department of Transportation announced last week new safeguards to prevent airplanes from hitting birds over and near the trash transfer station the city Sanitation Department is currently building in the College Point Corporate Park, about 2,000 feet from LaGuardia Airport’s eastern runway.
The additional safety measures come in response to a June 2009 meeting between U.S. Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-Bayside) and Joseph Crowley (D-Jackson Heights) and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, during which the congressmen warned LaHood of the dangers the facility could pose to aircraft.
New safeguards will be instituted during construction and operation of the facility. They include creating a wildlife hazards management plan, eliminating perching sites, a no-feeding policy for nearby animals, use of landscaping plants unattractive to wildlife, providing a dedicated wildlife-control professional, monitoring of trash containers and monitoring of barge activity.
The new protections come in addition to a new bird-strike plan Ackerman and Crowley recently helped get the FAA to agree to implement. That plan will require the USDA to monitor all bird activity around the trash facility by bringing an on-site biologist to visit the spot once a week for the first two years it is in operation.
If the biologist discovers there is an increase in bird activity, the site will be shut down by the FAA until the bird volume is reduced again.
Pigeon birth control is also now on the market and available without a prescription!
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How about aiming machine guns at these rat birds?
Hey, is that yellow dumpster the new home of St Saviours?
Naw, that's where they dumped the millstones from Queens Plaza.
Ya, kiddin? Right? They ground them up into the gravel you see in the background.
Hell, they're "just rocks" and might as well put them to some use.
Call 311.
Mary Beth Betts
LPC, NYC
Hell, they're "just rocks" and might as well put them to some use.
We had to get the rocks off.
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Totally off topic. That is why the public is never informed.
Big waste of time.
Totally off topic. That is why the public is never informed.
Big waste of time.
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The trolls want to divert your attention from the topic at hand, as usual.
Totally off topic. That is why the public is never informed.
Big waste of time.
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The trolls want to divert your attention from the topic at hand, as usual.
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ok fireball, then post away on the transfer facility issue. lots of postings on that topic already as you can see.
as to the millstones?
you are right - the millstones already have a lot of publicity - its just the people in Queens like Graziano and Trent that can do something that are hiding.
more later.
ok fireball, then post away on the transfer facility issue. lots of postings on that topic already as you can see.
What gives you the right to hijack someone else's blog? If you have a separate issue that you want to discuss, write to QC (the email address is on the home page) and I'm sure your concerns will be heard. Don't start spewing venom because you are not happy with the amount of comments on the CP transfer facility. If you don't like what I just said, start your own blog. I am quite happy following the escapades of the Crapper and respectfully would like to see people stay focused and on topic. It's not about YOU...as Babs recently found out.
Whew! It's getting hot in here. I just wanted to say that the facility will be fine until the first fatal bird strike at the end of the runway. There'll be a big stink (pun intended) and the place will be shut. It'll be a waste of taxpayer money but certain elected officials and construction contractors will walk away smiling. Can't we prevent a crime before it happens???
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