tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8657172978429800995.post7568713240616373142..comments2023-10-25T06:18:51.051-05:00Comments on Red Oak Park in Ward 4 — City's First Ephemeral Park: Rain dampens attendance at February 11, 2008, Ward Four meetingaubuniquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281865213176006571noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8657172978429800995.post-44169846838411765322008-02-12T12:10:00.000-06:002008-02-12T12:10:00.000-06:00You guys both make interesting points. Obviously, ...You guys both make interesting points. Obviously, it would be wonderful for neighbors to have a fishing pond for the kids. But the Corps of Engineers does keep regulatory control over streams being dammed. <BR/>They don't really try to stop many big dam projects being advocated by local public officials who can get a congressman's support. But they would require a massive environmental-impact study before approving that idea. But they don't do anything to stop construction on wetland except when it is a major parcel with direct access to a major navigable stream. They just allow"mitigation" when the existence of wetland is forced on their attention.<BR/>The corps always puts the problem off on others, since the current federal administration doesn't want to impede any kind of growth.<BR/>The words from state and federal agencies with environmental responsibility are pretty much the same.<BR/>"Your town can make stronger rules and enforce them."<BR/>It comes down to a matter of the city having the will to create appropriate ordinances to do the job.<BR/> Ask Jeff Erf about a place he lived and once served on a local board whose mission was to protect watershed, stream riparian zones, wetland and other such matters.<BR/>Or do a google search for local-government watershed regulations. I have an example on the my aubunique blogspot, which is among the sites listed under links of interest on this site.aubuniquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281865213176006571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8657172978429800995.post-34348231375147896922008-02-12T03:30:00.000-06:002008-02-12T03:30:00.000-06:00You only think you're bored? I clicked on the aubu...You only think you're bored? I clicked on the aubunique blogspot and it is even more loaded down with Red Oak Park stuff. I think they ought to put a control on that pipe under New Bridge Road, let the park hold a few feet of water all the time upstream and we could wade out to the the pavilion and sit on the table and cast to the deep water. Don't stock any trout of course, just "sustainable native species" such as largemouth and bass and green sunfish. Most of the good ponds in this area have been filled with clay and leveled for subdivisions, so we need a fishing pond for our kids out here.<BR/>What do you think, Mr. Shepherd?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8657172978429800995.post-79895909149517895342008-02-12T01:23:00.000-06:002008-02-12T01:23:00.000-06:00Man, I checked in on this site not long after the ...Man, I checked in on this site not long after the meeting was supposed to be held and it had a short writeup on the meeting. Now I come back after a couple of hours of watching TV and you are still adding more. Don't you ever sleep? Do you even know whether your favorite Utah Jazz NBA team won? I won't tell you. You probably don't even know whether they played tonight or not. Go get a snack and turn on ESPN and chill.<BR/><BR/>If these people won't step up and get busy educating one another and build some rain gardens in their yards, just forget it.<BR/><BR/>You can get back to nursing the World Peace Wetland Prairie toward all-native plants and feeding your pet sparrows and cardinals and doves and (whatever you call those small birds? wrens, chickadees?) and maybe spotlight a few hundred more environmental disasters around town and forget this bunch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com