In Florida – it seems so easy. Here is I-75 connecting Miami to Michigan, crossing the sensitive Braden River in Manatee County.
Paddle down a lazy river!
The bridge deck segments are 58 ft wide by 100 ft long, sitting on torsion trivet pilings 60 ft wide by 50 ft on center. Expense for this type of river crossing is minimal, given the small beam size.
Wildlife values are excellent
Hogging the log!
Thanks to Sound Beacher – more beauty at the beach.
Life lesson – looking down is necessary at times, up looking up is always up-lifting.
Hat tip to Earth Ocean Sky
Stone Sculptures
In-coming geese – always a thrilling and noisy spectacle.
In-coming geese
How to you get sewage to go under a river?
Option 1 – dig it deep, with a wide berth for the floodway.
Option 2 – keep it shallow but bury it in a big load of stone placed in the floodway area.
Which is the legal option? Obviously #1. What did the Town choose to do, even though a sewage lift station was less than 500 feet downstream? Obviously #2.
Sewer Siphon box on east bank of the Byram River 450 ft North of Den Lane.
Would this tend to de-stabilize the opposite bank, where home-owners own to the center of the river. You betcha!
Say goodbye to land along Caroline Place - It won't be around for long.
Fecal contamination of the rivers and brooks in Greenwich CT must be addressed and minimized. 2012 will go down as the year we had to clean up our mess. Federal EPA and the Courts have imposed a deadline of Jan 2013 to implement a daily pollution limit on the waters of the Byram River and Greenwich Harbors for TMDL – total maximum daily loading of fecal coliform (bacteria from the colon.)
The NY Court Decision (Index 16132/10 from a Westchester County Clerk filing on Jan 10, 2012) found that NY DEC, which administers the same MS4 programs on the west side of the Byram River, failed its “agency” from EPA in four ways:
1. Failed to reduce discharge of pollutants tot he maximum practical extent.
2. Failed to ensure compliance with water quality standards of the Clean Water Act.
3. Failed to conduct monitoring of storm water discharges.
4. Violated requirements for public participation in the process.
At Board of Selectmen Meeting on Dec 1, 2011 David Theis asked Public Works: ”Where does all this bacteria come from?” Answer given: “Dogs.” The amount formally reported by the Town to EPA’s MS4 Storm Water monitoring program, from the Town’s website:
Poop sheet results - that's official
If you are asking if this is high, consider a beach is closed in Vermont with 77. An average of 126 is needed in CT. So yes, that’s a lot of poop.
We’ll take up the issue of whether it’s geese, gulls, horses, failing septic systems, or cross-connections and spillages between the storm and sanitary piping networks later this week.
But Sound Beacher weighs in with a photo essay, from where else, the beach:
Okay, We provide the doggy bags and give you the world's greatest dog park
And we give you reminders to pick up after your dogs (or ferrets or whatever)
But People - The idea is to send the bag to the Burn Plant in Bridgeport. So put the bag in the trash can, Pleeazze!
And this is really, really gross:
$100 fine for this.. Bad doggy? No. The owner brings the dog to the park.
First Iris bloom of 2012
Whole new meaning to: "Who's your daddy?"
clammers taking advantage of the low tide
wide open beach with just a few visitors
