Waterfront Meeting Wants You

When was this first announced? One day notice doesn't afford many people the opportunity to contribute, although that might be the reason. I may be wrong, but this is the first I heard of this. Will anyone from the actual waterfront planning group, the governor appointed committee, be there?

This has been on my calendar for weeks. I can't trace exactly how it got there, but it was directly or indirectly via BRO. If you want to hear about future meetings, subscribe to: http://www.invitingbuffalo.com/blog/

BTW, why do you blame BRO for your not knowing about a meeting? Isn't that your responsibility?

WBFO ran an interview with the leader of this meeting. It doesn't appear on their web site yet, but you might be able to get it later. It's a piece by Joyce Kryszak with unexpectedly specific details on Ketry's and others' ideas.

If anyone would like more information on this meeting check out this WBFO link - http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbfo/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1541715/WBFO.News/Buffalo.Waterfront.Initiative

It contains an interview with Earl Ketry - the host and one of the conveners of the waterfront meeting

Thanks for the link. Sorry I got the reporter wrong.

Buffalo has a wonderful waterfront with plenty of potential and we should charish and respect Lake Erie and the Niagara river; two incredible natural resources. Unfortunatelty there are entities outside of WNY who care little of what we hold dearly. 30 miles South of Buffalo we have a nuclear material processing facility called the West Valley project that has and is polluting watersheds emptying out into Cattaraugus Creek which finally makes it way into Lake Erie. Radioactive materials leeching into our fresh water supply that supports millions of us. The US Department of Energy who runs this 3000 acre facility is now decommissioning and preparing a second Environmental Impact Study on long term plans for it. From what I have heard and read it appears that even though this area is very geologically and hydrologically active the DOE wants to clean up a small portion of this facility in one phase and then over 30 years carry out the second phase, which for the most part means leaving almost all the waste at this site, regardless of past contamination events; one of which in 1974 contaminated Lake Erie. The NYS Attorney General and the NYS Energy Research & Development Authority have filed a lawsuit against the DOE to make sure they perform the remediation that is necessary and in an acceptable time frame and for damages already made to the environment. This to me sounds like a current and future threat to our WNY environment specifically Lake Erie, Niagara River, and now even Lake Ontario. When trace amounts of radioactive material such as plutonium are found in our waterways I think it is time for all of us to be better informed on who may be polluting our environment and how we can better protect it; after all we live here. Please refer to some links on this topic and make up your own decesion on what type of threat this is to Lake Erie, Niagara River and Lake Ontario. Buffalo's waterfront needs to be preserved and protected and a major radioactive contamination of our waterways is a disaster scenario that we should never have to worry about.

http://www.besafenet.com/campaigns/wvreport.shtml

http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/decommissioning/decommissioninghome.htm

http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/506335.html