Before NYS Thruway began work on the I-90 between the Evans and Hamburg exits, the Army Corp Engineers sent letters (see below) to adjoining property owners explaining the road improvement project. Under Fran Pordum’s stealth government, the residents that live on the 1.7 miles of Dawn Avenue “Don’t Need To Know” that the town plans to make Dawn Avenue a two lane street from Old Lake Shore Road to Route 5. Fran Pordum skipped the public comment portion (was SEQR required?) of the project and hires engineers to begin work on Dawn Avenue from Lenox to Harrison Streets. Dawn Avenue from Old Lake Shore Road to Quebec Street is a one lane road. One resident’s home is only a few feet from the blacktop. Will Fran Pordum demolish part of this resident’s home to build a second lane on Dawn Avenue?

Dawn Avenue residents should call Fran Pordum at 549-5787 to express their concerns.

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Just like the headquarters of Evans Bankcorp and New Era Cap, H&K Industries has moved out of Evans. When the failure to land Walmart is considered, the town board must ask themselves if its time to replace the Director of Community Development. In the private sector, firing the Diorector of Community Development would be an easy decision.

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In 2009, beach closings and advisories hit their sixth-highest level in the 20 years the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been tracking them. The continuing high number of closing and advisory days, combined with a relatively constant level of bacterial contamination at ocean, bay, and Great Lakes beaches, suggests that our nation’s beaches require a more concerted effort to identify and control the sources of water pollution that put swimmers at risk. 

For the fifth consecutive year, we were able to determine not only the number of closings and advisories, but also the number of times that each beach violated current public health standards. The percent of beach monitoring samples exceeding national health standards remained steady at 7% in 2009, equal to the level in 2008 and 2007 and down from 9% in 2006. More frequent monitoring plus 17% fewer preemptive rainfall closing and advisory days due to drier weather in some parts of the country translated into a better beach season last year for swimmers in many coastal communities. But relying on dry weather to keep contaminated runoff from polluting beachwater is not a long-term public health protection strategy. When the rains return, so do the beach closings and advisories. For example, in the Delmarva Peninsula near Washington, D.C., wetter-than-average conditions contributed to nearly three times as many closing/advisory days in 2009 as in 2008. 

During 2009, stormwater runoff was identified as a source of more than 80% of the closing/advisory days for which a source was identified. This indicates that there are sources of human or animal wastes that are not being adequately addressed and that are getting washed into the ocean when it rains. 

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