D-CAAL: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO COUNT TO A MILLION?

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO COUNT TO A MILLION?

Costs of Canal Repair: UNCOUNTABLE???

The Aqueduct at Point Pleasant: 2.5 million

The Lock at New Hope (Lock #11): 1 million

FEMA Involvement after the 3 floods of 2004-2006

The FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) assessment is completed at last. The agency has unofficially set the cost of repairing the flood damage at $22 million. The official approval is expected soon. Federal funds will cover 75% of the total; the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is expected to supply the remaining 25% ($5.5 million). Meanwhile $200,000 in fed- eral funds has been released for use by the State already, with $3 million to follow in the next few months. (Friends of The Delaware Canal, Canal News, Autumn 2005 http://www.fodc.org/pdfs/newsletterarchive/canalnews905.pdf)

Published: Monday, March 16, 2009, 11:04 PM

NEW HOPE, Pa. -- About $40 million in federal and state funds is being spent to repair three seasons' worth of flood damage inflicted on the Delaware Canal. Although the work is moving along, canoe owners and fisherman will not be putting their gear in the water anytime soon...Contracts of more than $19 million were awarded to rebuild heavily devastated areas to the canal near Easton and in Upper Bucks County.

The $30 million from FEMA and the $10 million in state funds for the flood project are welcomed by communities along the canal. Unfortunately for them, there is still much maintenance and repair work to be done that has been stalled for years. Given the condition of the Pennsylvania budget, there is little reason to expect a large infusion of capital funds.

Budgets insufficient to carry out maintenance or capital projects have been the rule as the canal bed, its banks, flood gates and locks continued to deteriorate for years.(NJ.com; http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2009/03/canal_work_flows_along.html)

The coffer dam at Centre Bridge that is used to hold pumped water in the section of the Canal used by the New Hope Canal Boat Ride was washed away and is in the process of being rebuilt by Park personnel. (Friends of The Delaware Canal Newsletter; http://www.fodc.org/pdfs/newsletterarchive/canalnews706.pdf)

Published: July 19, 2010

Following a $29 million flood repair project that took two-and-a-half years to complete, the historic Delaware Canal State Park will reopen this week with a celebration at the Forks of the Delaware Recreation Area in Easton. (Bucks Local News http://www.buckslocalnews.com/articles/2010/07/19/the_advance/news/doc4c44abc6542b4805918359.txt)

Excuse me, but how long exactly would it take for any one person to count to a million? Can anyone reading this conceive of such numbers?

FUN FACTS

Naturally, that depends on how fast you can count. But if you can count from 1 to 100 in one minute, and you keep counting every minute, without stopping, for eight hours every day (taking time off to eat, sleep, and go to school), you would reach 1,000,000 in 20 days, 6 hours, and 40 minutes, or almost 3 weeks.

If, however, you give up eating, sleeping, and school, and just count every minute of every hour of every day, you would reach 1,000,000 in 6 days, 22 hours, and 40 minutes, almost 1 week.(http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-count-to-1-million)

This is our taxpayer money. You and I pay money to The State whether you are a home owner, a renter, an employer or an employee in Pennsylvania. Don't you want a say if you know that your dollars are being wasted, or being used merely for the sake of appearances and then the death of local wildlife?
This year, 2011, the DCNR has $27,000,000 at its disposal from The State to be used to pay its employees and for the management and repair of its parks and the canal system. We need to be able to have a say in whether they fix the canal properly this time before it is refilled, or whether the past is repeated again and again.

PLEASE STAY TUNED AND INFORMED TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP.

AND SIGN THE PETITION.

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Delaware Canal State Park Reptile & Amphibian Species List

Amphibians

Common NameScientific Name Northern cricket frog Acris crepitans crepitans, American toad Bufo americanus, Fowlers toad Bufo fowleri, Northern two-lined salamander Eurycea bislineata bislineata, Redbacked salamander Plethodon cinereus, Slimy salamander Plethodon g. glutinosus, New Jersey chorus frog Pseudacris triseriata kalmi, Bullfrog Rana catesbeiana, Green frog Rana clamitans melanota, Northern pickerel Rana palustris, Wood frog Rana sylvatica.

Reptiles

Common NameScientific Name Northern copperhead Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, Snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina, Eastern painted turtle Chrysemys picta picta, Northern black racer Coluber constrictor constrictor, Northern ringneck snake Diadophis punctatus edwardsi, Map turtle Graptemys geographica, Eastern milk snake Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum, Northern water snake Nerodia sipedon sipedon, Red-bellied turtle Pseudemys rubriventris, Eastern box turtle Terrapene carolina carolina, Eastern garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis.

(DCNR, http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/delawarecanal/delawarecanal_herps.aspx)

Who we are:

We are a group of concerned individuals whose voices are speaking out for the rights of the silent minority: all of the animals of the Delaware Canal and its surroundings. We are not yet a powerful group but we are adding to our numbers everyday. Our mission is to stop the forced filling and refilling of the Delaware Canal on the Pennsylvania side from Easton to New Hope unless it is completely and competently repaired. Our aim is to bring awareness and educate the people of the Delaware Valley, the Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia and surrounding areas, as well as all those who come to Southeastern Pennsylvania as tourists, and have them voluntarily join our ranks against the repetitive injustice that occurs each year.

Beware, all is not what it appears to be!

The water that comes flowing down each spring or summer from the northern reaches of the Delaware River by Easton into the canal is a forced mission by certain local monied groups who through their funding and personal connections in the government strong-arm the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) into complying with the reopening of the headgate at Easton and various locks that join the canal to the Delaware River without ever having completed any repair on the canal. This is done for the sake of tourism, making the little river towns look cute and more inviting for shoppers and other visitors.

By winter every year, the canal bed is dry and filled with dead turtles, fish, mussels, and giant snails.

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