tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post7942590333210238223..comments2024-03-28T14:37:17.081-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: With a Carload of SaltCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-553082032108921342010-03-23T13:56:34.429-04:002010-03-23T13:56:34.429-04:00So much for the claim that this activity is relate...So much for the claim that this activity is related to any "water-dependent activity."<br /><br />This pretty much proves once and for all that Holcim is ginning up unnecessary truck activity to establish a fake baseline of traffic to put pressure on the City. There are a million other places where salt could be stockpiled.<br /><br />Moreover, it puts the lie to the Mayor and City attorneys contention that an alternate route through L&B is impossible. Already, without any improvements to the property, trucks are using it as such. (Personally, however, I think there should be no trucks at all down to this area -- get them out of the Bay as well as the City's streets.)<br /><br />I also hear that one of the outgoing trucks was traced all the way back to Massachusetts. So this is no longer either water-dependent or filling local needs.Sam Pratthttp://www.sampratt.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-22994908177761032282010-03-23T13:54:01.796-04:002010-03-23T13:54:01.796-04:00Great investigative work, Carole!
It was on March...Great investigative work, Carole!<br /><br />It was on March 5, 2008 that I photographed what may have been the last time salt was unloaded at Hudson's deep water port from barges.<br /><br />Since then, I have heard tell that even barges constituted a new use for salt transport, ships having been the preferable means earlier on. (I'd be very interested to learn about this claim from anyone who knows more.)<br /><br />One might even inquire whether a barge is a permitted use at all for salt transport hereabouts, considering that the Hudson is a fresh water system everywhere north of the "salt front" (near Poughkeepsie).<br /><br />I do not know if the barges I photographed a year ago were covered or not, which may have been all that was required, but I always keep in mind the partial sinking of a barge at our port only a few years ago.<br /><br />T. O'ConnorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com