This morning Governor O'Malley came to Salisbury this morning to visit the new construction going on for the new Bennett High School.
He was joined by County Executive Rick Pollitt, Norm Conway, Jim Mathias and County Council Members.
"Protecting our investment in public education and school construction is critical to providing Maryland's students with the best education and the best equipment," said O'Malley. "The new construction of James M. Bennett High School will help address the growing student population, while also minimally impacting the environment with sustainable design features."
"I am delighted that Governor O'Malley took the time to visit the site of our newest and most ambitious school construction project," said County Executive Rick Pollitt. "Our community will be stronger for his efforts."
There are 1,400 students in grades nine through twelve. Construction began in June of 2008 and is scheduled to be complete in September of 2011. Mr. Pollitt also expanded by stating the new school will provide air conditioning, Energy Star Roofing and around 600 wells for a geothermal heating and colling system, and ultra-low flow plumbing.
I know, how do you do it all Joe. LOL
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600 indiviual wells, that means there not using closed loop systems. one well supply ground water and the other well returns it to the water table,(dumps it). i wonder if a study has been done to see if this amount of dump water will affect the water supply in that area? thats alot of wells and alot of pumps.
Look how fat Norman Conway is. The biggest perk he gets from being an elected official is free food.
Why didn't the gov. visit the new Prince Street or attend its opening. I will tell you why...that money came from Erlich's administration and politics never bleeds over. Or could it be that Prince St. houses mostly minorities and JMB has the rich white kids.
What a shame!
That doesn't seem like a lot of wells to me. In most home constructions, they use 5-6 wells depending on how big the house. For JMB and its size, 600 sounds reasonable. I would bet that it is a closed loop system.
3:17
Leave Mr. C alone. He has done more for the shore than your sorry ass ever has.
O'Malley could give a sh$t about this project. All today was was a PR campaign for him. I heard it was all staged. My child was called to attend just to make it look good.
You are seriously delusional if you think Bennett has the rich white kids. The majority of the students at Bennett are low-middle income. They are the kids in gangs and have single parent households. Parkside is the rich white kid school. Open your eyes!! Or better yet get one of those district maps and look at the neighborhoods in each of the schools. Research the facts before you put your foot in your mouth next time.
i have never seen a home(resedential) with 5 or 6 wells, thats ridiculous. you dont know what your talking about.
3:17 RIGHT ON!!!
Anonymous said...
Why didn't the gov. visit the new Prince Street or attend its opening. I will tell you why...that money came from Erlich's administration and politics never bleeds over. Or could it be that Prince St. houses mostly minorities and JMB has the rich white kids.
What a shame!
I can tell you that Bennett is not full of "rich white kids." I went there not so long ago, and believe me when I say there were a lot of minorities and poor kids. Get your facts straight.
K Groves
Anonymous said...
3:17
Leave Mr. C alone. He has done more for the shore than your sorry ass ever has.
3:25 PM
He hasn't done diddly squat for the shore and niether have you. He is a deadbeat that has slopped at the public trough all his life.
K Groves...
I thought JMB served Nanticoke Road, Pemberton Road which includes a lot of rich white folk. They also serve other areas but they do have some rich, spoiled kids go there.
Not sure which side you qualify but must someone must have hit a nerve.
3:31...
You have no clue. Check anyone around the area that has geothermal and you will see that they have anywhere from 4-6 wells for their system. This does not mean drinking wells. Geo wells are covered up so they are not seen so YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!!
Back it up, 3:52.
Anonymous said...
3:31...
You have no clue. Check anyone around the area that has geothermal and you will see that they have anywhere from 4-6 wells for their system. This does not mean drinking wells. Geo wells are covered up so they are not seen so YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!!
4:01 PM
Is everyone on the rag or what. 4:01, take a frigging bong hit or something, by using rational thinking you can tell 3:31 did not realize we were talking about geothermal.
one 2" well with a 3/4 h.p. pump can supply enough supply ground water to four seperate hvac handler units,(given moderate resedential size equipment) this means around 4000 sq' of living space. this one well would need a dump pumpless well to return the water to the ground. alot of this depends on your expansion tank, capacity wise. a closed loop system only needs to be filled once, then a well is no longer required,(unless you have a leak) it returns the water to the ground threew a series of loops, this allows the water to go back to ground temperature. alot of these systems are filled with anti-freeze because all you are doing is circulating the water or fluid. if you have that wells and dump wells you got took.
Anonymous said...
K Groves...
I thought JMB served Nanticoke Road, Pemberton Road which includes a lot of rich white folk. They also serve other areas but they do have some rich, spoiled kids go there.
Not sure which side you qualify but must someone must have hit a nerve.
3:59 PM
Rich spoiled kids are at every school, smart ones.
How much of this project is awarded to local contractors and suppliers
Moe better lay off of the pork barreling (Pun intended). Not trying to be rude Moe but you are not helping your own life expectancy, think of your family and just do it man. Not trying to belittle you Norm, your constituents rely on you, I lost my father at 71 to heart disease, I still miss him every day.
I make a bet with ya, you loose 60 lbs and I donate a day's time to sit on the house floor with a dunce cap on and another day at your favorite charity in a dunking booth in February!
Anonymous said...
K Groves...
I thought JMB served Nanticoke Road, Pemberton Road which includes a lot of rich white folk. They also serve other areas but they do have some rich, spoiled kids go there.
Not sure which side you qualify but must someone must have hit a nerve.
3:59 PM
You hit a nerve when you decided to open your mouth without being informed. I never said there weren't any rich white kids, but there were many more poor and minority kids. It may have served Nanticoke and Pemberton, but it also served Roger Street, Winder Street, and Wicomico Street, not to mention Smith and Light Streets. Last time I checked, they weren't the most affluent kids.
For your information, I was in a single parent home, and not at all wealthy.
K Groves
Anon 4:22 is correct.
I have a 4,500 square foot home. We have a geothermal closed loop system. Four tons for downstairs and three tons for upstairs.
There were seven wells dug in my yard at a diameter of 4-6 inches and 275 feet deep.
We took the proper flexible 3/4" tubing and "close looped" the whole project.
The wells eventually fill in with soil and water.
The only thing you are exchanging is heat. In this fine area where we live, the earth is approximately 56 degrees year round (give or take a degree.)
So if you have a HVAC that is trying to heat cold ambient air at the outside of the home at 10 degrees and warm it to 97 (at the register), you have to heat that air 87 degrees!!!
I start heating this air at almost 60. 50 degrees may not sound like a lot, but it is several hundred dollars less a month with geothermal than with conventional HVAC.
Same thing applies in the summer only in reverse. We take the heat out of the home and put it back into the ground.
.....in its most simplest terms.
Nice pictures of little johnny and Fat Moe. They both say up yours!
Norm is almost as big as Hoppess and Gary
message to the people that think the rich, white kids go to bennett or parkside or wherever.....
give me a second so i can stop laughing....
Sorry but the truly, rich white kids are in the private schools! if you have some money, you are not sending your child to any of the public schools around here.
now that is a fact.
Anonymous said...
Norm is almost as big as Hoppess and Gary
11:05 PM
ROTFLMAO
Fatso Hoppes has him beat by a hundred pounds.
The geothermal heating system at JMB is a closed loop system. The BOE would be happy to show you the plans.
They went with closed loop because they didn't know how to do in open loop configuration.
Open loop is higher efficiency than closed loop. If they were really smart, they could have used the retention pond and saved hordes of money by using the pond water.
But it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Anyone worth their grain of salt knows that they hyped this event to feather their own nest.
8:58
You are right about the private schools.
The Maryland legislature gave money to Wicomico and other counties for advanced programs in science, technology, engineering and math. It is called the STEM program and is to help advance the brightest children who are learning nothing while no one is being left behind. The program was to go in the high school with the most advanced students in the four areas. Anyone in the education system knows that is Bennett. So where are the STEM programs going--WI HI!!!! How in the world is that possible? The bottom line is that money meant for lower achieving students goes to them and money meant for the highest achieving students goes to the lowest achievers, as well. Good luck to the new superintendent!!!
7:31
STEM money is not going to be used like it should in Wicomico County. The qualifications for students to enroll in the advanced STEM classes include at least a B MINUS average. B MINUS@# Why is a B MINUS average at Wi Hi considered the most advanced achievement in science, technology, engineering and math? Look at the math team competitions, Academic Challenge teams, number of kids taking AP courses and getting high scores, etc. and tell me the strongest STEM students are at WiHi. What a farce. It is just what 7:31 said that the Board finds a way to use as much money as possible for the least accomplished students no matter who the money was intended for. Maybe the state will take back the money when they see how it's being used.
cam needs to get a life i may not be a rich white kid but i'm not low middle class. just because it is a getto school we have some smart people who arent poor
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