I was at a
State Employee Union meeting about 2 wks ago and had a chance to see some old
friends that work at the Department of Environmental Services
Headquarters. Since some of them knew of
the big issue with the Exeter Dam Removal and the issues of the Great Bay they
were telling me that the new discussions behind the scenes is there appears to
be no proof that nitrogen in Great Bay is damaging the eel grass or much of
anything else some even said that the higher ups claim that there is no proof
that it doesn’t, so what is their proof.
Great Bay
has never been one of my issues; in fact I’ve only been on it once in my entire
life. I know that there are many people
with special interests that are happy to be Great Bay experts; that is good
because it allows people with an interest in the issue to pursue it to their
hearts content.
There
appears to be something going on behind the scenes for the DES Hqtrs staff to
be hearing/saying what the rest of us have been wondering.
What most
people don’t know is four years ago when house was run by O’Brien the majority
of republicans wanted to do away with DES as an agency. One attempt that was considered was to wipe
out their budget; but most of their money comes from the feds or outside
sources so when they realized that it probably would not happen, the effort was
dropped.
It looks
like some communities are being pushed to spend millions of dollars for sewer
plant upgrades to meet standards that there might not be a need for or at
least, the so called evidence is shaky at best.
EXETER BOARD
OF SELECTMAN!!
I think I
have a legitimate question to the BOS and that is after the nasty battle to
tear down the dam can we rename the river?
When the dam comes down can we rename it Clement Creek or Ingrams
Brook. I think we should pay homage to
people who worked so hard to get the dam down.
Now I can’t wait to get the job done.
