Q: As a former town supervisor, and area realtor for 30 years, why did you decide to go back to school?
The floods. Watching the town’s flooding from 1999 through 2007, with the velocity increase each year—particularly the severity of 2006—a flood of record—and observing the difference of option with rank and file and regulation issues, I realized the need to go back to school. I chose SUNY Binghamton to study Geography and Resource Management.
Q: Is Geography helpful to comprehend how these small streams cause so much destruction?
Yes. It’s the study of the world and all of its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. Some of our town’s regulations are over 20-years-old. These regulations need to go back to school.
Q: What is the conflict with rank and file and regulations?
The community is for dredging streams in hope that the flooding issues would go away. I agree with regulations. Sometimes, the best thing is just to leave them alone. I believe in ‘no adverse impact’ with floodplain management.
Q:What is no adverse impact floodplain management?
Leave alone. The “no adverse impact” is not intended as a rigid rule of conduct. Rather it has been suggested as a general guide for landowners and communities in the watersheds and the floodplains, which may adversely impact other properties, or communities
Q: Do people compare these restrictions with free speech?
I would say yes and the biggest problem is no build zones vs. where people have or want to live. There was a family with two trailers next to each other on Spring Brook. During flash flood of 2007 both trailers washed away. Survivors described the spring becoming wall of water. The mother was in one of the trailers. Her body was never recovered even with cadaver dogs adding the search. Unfortunately the family chose to rebuild built in the same location. This is really sad. Last week's flood washed the trailers away again. The government should have bought out this land. There should never be any building within 20ft of a stream.
Q: Are you for regulatory government?
Yes. Restriction in zones protects democracy.
Q: And back to water— your thoughts on the drilling of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas?
It takes millions gallons of chemical filled water to drill a well and that water is dumped into holding ponds. And the next flood—image that wall of water.
Yes. It’s the study of the world and all of its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. Some of our town’s regulations are over 20-years-old. These regulations need to go back to school.
Q: What is the conflict with rank and file and regulations?
The community is for dredging streams in hope that the flooding issues would go away. I agree with regulations. Sometimes, the best thing is just to leave them alone. I believe in ‘no adverse impact’ with floodplain management.
Q:What is no adverse impact floodplain management?
Leave alone. The “no adverse impact” is not intended as a rigid rule of conduct. Rather it has been suggested as a general guide for landowners and communities in the watersheds and the floodplains, which may adversely impact other properties, or communities
Q: Do people compare these restrictions with free speech?
I would say yes and the biggest problem is no build zones vs. where people have or want to live. There was a family with two trailers next to each other on Spring Brook. During flash flood of 2007 both trailers washed away. Survivors described the spring becoming wall of water. The mother was in one of the trailers. Her body was never recovered even with cadaver dogs adding the search. Unfortunately the family chose to rebuild built in the same location. This is really sad. Last week's flood washed the trailers away again. The government should have bought out this land. There should never be any building within 20ft of a stream.
Q: Are you for regulatory government?
Yes. Restriction in zones protects democracy.
Q: And back to water— your thoughts on the drilling of the Marcellus Shale for natural gas?
It takes millions gallons of chemical filled water to drill a well and that water is dumped into holding ponds. And the next flood—image that wall of water.
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