Press Conference Not Adequately Covered By Daily Times
--Salisbury-- A press conference about filtration systems for stormwater drains and Ireton's plan, "The Wicomico River Project" found coverage in yesterday's edition of the Daily Times that was inadequate at best.
Ireton, who has a long history of working to improve Salisbury neighborhoods, stated: "What I want citizens to know is that, as Mayor, I will do everything in my power to live and lead a "Vision" for the Wicomico that does the following:
The Wicomico becomes the backbone of our efforts to revitalize downtown
The Wicomico is the catalyst for the continued revitalization of connected neighborhoods
The Wicomico becomes the touchstone of our renewed effort to re-claim the sense of "space" that has been lost in this community
The cleanup of the Wicomico spurs the sense of ownership by the city citizens and children
The Wicomico becomes the foundation of our own local effort in the green revolution
Mr. Ireton has been a strong supporter of the efforts to alleviate the frequent flooding of the neighborhoods of Monticello and North Pinehurst Avenues with the re-routing of storm water, but the remediation should not come at the expense of the entire Wicomico River watershed when simple and cost effective methods of filtration exist. Ireton had this to say early this morning:
"I've seen Camden flooding and have walked through much of that area, and know the history of why the flooding happened. I simply asked that we do something to filter the runoff from hundreds of acres in the Waverly and Newtown storm drains that dump into the Wicomico River. These kinds of decisions send a bad message to the community. The city, under Tilghman/Comegys, is the Wicomico's worst polluter, and has no moral grounds to tell anybody what they can do on the river, without first cleaning up their own messes. I have a plan to begin the cleanup of the Wicomico, no other candidate for mayor does."
Under Ireton's leadership, there will be no need to pit neighbors against neighbors--there is room to immediately alleviate the flooding problems within an environmentally responsible framework.
--Salisbury-- A press conference about filtration systems for stormwater drains and Ireton's plan, "The Wicomico River Project" found coverage in yesterday's edition of the Daily Times that was inadequate at best.
Ireton, who has a long history of working to improve Salisbury neighborhoods, stated: "What I want citizens to know is that, as Mayor, I will do everything in my power to live and lead a "Vision" for the Wicomico that does the following:
The Wicomico becomes the backbone of our efforts to revitalize downtown
The Wicomico is the catalyst for the continued revitalization of connected neighborhoods
The Wicomico becomes the touchstone of our renewed effort to re-claim the sense of "space" that has been lost in this community
The cleanup of the Wicomico spurs the sense of ownership by the city citizens and children
The Wicomico becomes the foundation of our own local effort in the green revolution
Mr. Ireton has been a strong supporter of the efforts to alleviate the frequent flooding of the neighborhoods of Monticello and North Pinehurst Avenues with the re-routing of storm water, but the remediation should not come at the expense of the entire Wicomico River watershed when simple and cost effective methods of filtration exist. Ireton had this to say early this morning:
"I've seen Camden flooding and have walked through much of that area, and know the history of why the flooding happened. I simply asked that we do something to filter the runoff from hundreds of acres in the Waverly and Newtown storm drains that dump into the Wicomico River. These kinds of decisions send a bad message to the community. The city, under Tilghman/Comegys, is the Wicomico's worst polluter, and has no moral grounds to tell anybody what they can do on the river, without first cleaning up their own messes. I have a plan to begin the cleanup of the Wicomico, no other candidate for mayor does."
Under Ireton's leadership, there will be no need to pit neighbors against neighbors--there is room to immediately alleviate the flooding problems within an environmentally responsible framework.
W O W ! HOW ABOUT THAT COMEGYS,SHANNIE,SMITH,TILGHMAN??
ReplyDeleteIreton...nice, but showing he's no push-over.
ReplyDeleteBooyah!!!!!!!!!!
Go, Ireton!
Go Jim, Go Jim, Get your campaign on. Make them work for the seat you will soon be holding.
ReplyDeleteYou gotta love Gary's press release (response) to Jim Ireton where he says:
ReplyDelete"This project can be retrofitted with enhanced storm water filtration as technology develops & funding becomes available."
The technology has been developed. The funding is available. The $500,000 (that's half a million!) in the budget for project overruns on this project should be more than enough.
In other words, "We didn't feel like doing it."
Two Sentz, Gary's got a long history of "we'll fix it later."
ReplyDeleteLet's retrofit the council with three more competent members. Gary, Louise and Shanie need to go.
What a great idea, Gary! Let's put off what we know to be the right thing now, when it would be cheaper, and do it later after much damage has been done and it will be MUCH more expensive! Are you paying attention Salisbury voters?
ReplyDeleteThe City and Government should be ashamed. Most of us would love to know how the City was allowed to fix one problem by creating a much larger one. SHAME
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