From the NY Times:
The Bloomberg administration wants to invest up to $1.5 billion over the next 20 years on new environmental techniques to reduce the flow of sewage into the city’s waterways.
The plan, announced on Tuesday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, calls for building an infrastructure to capture and retain storm water before it reaches the sewer system and overloads it. The city would foster investments in projects like green roofs with plantings, porous pavement for parking lots, rain barrels, wetlands and depressions for collecting water in parks, for example.
Oh, I get it. That's why we've been putting layers of plastic and rubber turf over natural dirt!
And The Capital has a wonderful writeup about the storm water sponge known as the Ridgewood Reservoir, a wetland that Mayor Bloomberg wants to pave over for sports fields.
You can watch him make an ass of himself here. At 8:00 he talks about creating wetlands in parks, at 11:00 he talks about how important trees are.
Actually, I take that back. In order for him to have made an ass of himself, a reporter would actually have had to ask the mayor to explain his administration's contradictory position on the reservoir.
(Mocker, we need you.)
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For the that, a reporter would need to know something about water runoff in a big city like: dirt = good, concrete and blacktop = bad.
yes i'm going to buy a rain barrel for my property because the water bill is too high! they put in a new meter and prices went up.. this city is ran by a bunch of crooks.
yes i'm going to buy a rain barrel for my property because the water bill is too high!
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Don't know about NYC, but i know in some places collecting rain water, even that which falls on your property, is against the law.
See, the government owns the rain. I wish i was making that up.
So he is worried about sewage going into our parks and waterways, but still hasn't done anything to prevent it from going into people's homes. How about taking part of that $1.5 billion and put it into evaluating the sewer system capacity in all of Queens and design improvements to prevent backups into peoples homes from occurring again. Guarantee if this happened in Manhattan, it would be the first and only time since he jumps for the rich. This is not the City of Manhattan, it is the City of New York which includes tho Borough of Queens.
i cannot believe that the government has control on the rain. next they'll be taxing on water barrels.. shit i shouldn't of said that out loud..
It's just too bad no NYC news outlets have the brass balls to hire on The Crapper.
Actually, one of them just did!
Queens Crapper said...
Actually, one of them just did!
Do tell...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pk-dqDAUpQ Is Bloomberg going to The White House to escape the crisis he created in NYC? He belongs in jail with Quinn. He, Quinn and NYU are not green unless you mean with greed.
Naw, this guy is making too much money - you would have to be a fool to go into government work ... unless you are an elected official.
Then you are in the gravy train.
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