NYCkayaker What Are the Issues NYC Kayakers Want to SeeAddressed by the Next President.

[jtobin at warpdriveonline.com]

It's a TLA - three letter acronym
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:48:46 -0500
  "Gordon, Peter" <pgordon at exchange.tc.columbia.edu> 
wrote:
> What's CSO?
> 
> 
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>From: nyckayaker-bounces at rockandwater.net on behalf of 
>baptowicz at comcast.net
> Sent: Mon 1/21/2008 7:05 AM
> To: TomBrooklyn; nyckayaker at rockandwater.net
> Subject: Re: NYCkayaker What Are the Issues NYC Kayakers 
>Want to SeeAddressed by the Next President.
> 
> 
> 
> Tom:
> 
> Just as requesting cleaner water is an appropriate 
>objective, I would argue that asking for further 
>reductions in CSO discharges, and not total CSO 
>elimination, is reasonable.
> To eliminate CSO discharges from ever occuring would 
>require a new piping system to be constructed in every 
>street that contains a CSO pipe or the construction of a 
>CSO storage reservoir that would store the stormwater 
>until the rain event subsides and the reservoir can be 
>slowly discharged into the wastewater treatment plant. If 
>you look at the largest rain events that have ever 
>ocurred, the storage requirements would simply be 
>unreasonable.
> I would argue that what we want is for the CSO cities to 
>continuously increase their capacity to capture ever 
>increasing storm events. And by accomplishing this, all 
>CSO discharge from the small and moderate storm events is 
>elliminated. However, when the gully-washer occurs (and 
>is that the time we want to be out there kayaking?), CSO 
>is allowed to discharge. I would want to see specific 
>numeric CSO reduction requiremnents - within a schedule - 
>to be mandated for each CSO system.
> 
> Bruce Aptowicz
> 
> -------------- Original message --------------
>From: TomBrooklyn <tombrook11232 at yahoo.com>
> 
>> What are the issues NYC Kayakers want the next US 
>>President to address or at
>> least
>> show a sensitivity or proclivity towards. I will suggest 
>>some things to start.
>> I suppose Jim W would like to see the building of 
>>platforms be part of the
>> candidates platform.
>>
>> 1. Waterfront access
>> 2. Cleaner Water
>> 3. Elimination of CSOs
>> 4. Oyster seeding
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