tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post8416783813415552326..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Columbia County's Sleeping Dragon: Part ICarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-41779498959350899562019-01-06T11:06:53.107-05:002019-01-06T11:06:53.107-05:00There have been several landslides in Greenport be...There have been several landslides in Greenport behind the Sons & Daughters of Italy clubhouse, some threatening its safety. However, these may have more to do with being close to the Claverack Creek than with the type of soil.Sam Pratthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05139366555091167364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-84632159808338149092019-01-04T20:56:48.087-05:002019-01-04T20:56:48.087-05:00Actually, there have been several--on both sides o...Actually, there have been several--on both sides of town. In December, I reported on one that occurred in 1900 on South Second Street: https://gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/2018/12/was-it-ever-thus-continued.html. As I mentioned in the introduction to Margaret Schram's article, there was an incident, very likely attributable to Lake Albany clay, on Tanners Lane just last month. Margaret Schram names other instances in her subsequent articles, all of which I intend to share on Gossips.<br /><br />Carole Osterinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-63877691940258341672019-01-04T20:23:27.591-05:002019-01-04T20:23:27.591-05:00Thank you for this instructive introduction to our...Thank you for this instructive introduction to our Lake Albany clays by Margaret Schram. I hope more's on the way!<br /><br />I've seen the City of Hudson's "blue clay" brought up from a depth of 50 feet, and its a goo that's very nearly runny. The warmer-colored clay above it for about 30 feet was nearly as hard as rock. The first 18 feet or so was a mix of soil and clay. That's what came up in one location anyway.<br /><br />But it's our vulnerable slopes that have left them wooded for the most part, preserving miles of forests to the north which conceal a surprising number of mature trees. It's a gift that nobody was ever able to build there.<br /><br />Over the last few years Hudson's soil and erosion issues were repeatedly brought to the attention of the CAC, yet as Gossips mentions neither appear as subjects in the CAC's new inventory. In my opinion, too much of the "inventory" is taken up with climate predictions rather than existing conditions. Now, why is that? unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-14047063342802020592019-01-04T18:21:02.608-05:002019-01-04T18:21:02.608-05:00Interesting ... have we had anything approaching a...Interesting ... have we had anything approaching a landslide or even a mini landslide here in Hudson? leonardo siderihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238144897574760385noreply@blogger.com