- May
- 19
The state of Rockland’s water will be the focus of a free program at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Suffern Library, 210 Lafayette Ave.
The participants will include William Janeway, New York state Department of Environmental Conservation Region 3 director; Alison Keimowitz, of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; and Steve Goudsmith, a spokesman for United Water New York.
Janeway will speak about water issues confronting Rockland and Region 3, which includes Rockland.
Keimowitz will discuss the groundwater study to be conducted by Rockland County with help from scientists at Lamont-Doherty and support from United Water.
Goudsmith will talk about United Water’s proposed water treatment plant, which would treat Hudson River water. He will also discuss some of the options for increasing the available water supply, as well as conservation.
The program is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Rockland County, the Rockland County Water Quality Committee, United Water New York, Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Posted by Laura Incalcaterra on Monday, May 19th, 2008 at 5:32 pm |
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- May
- 16
Who knows what a bird thinks when it thinks real estate. For some reason, this aluminum extension ladder in Mark Paulvin’s Somers garage seemed like THE spot for a robin to build its nest. 
From here, I’ll let Mark talk:
“Two weeks ago I noticed the beginnings of a robin’s nest being built on an extension ladder hanging from the ceiling in my garage. Sure enough, by day two, there were two large blue eggs in the nest and the mother robin was going to have a difficult task sitting on her eggs in my busy garage.”
A family meeting followed on whether to move the nest, move the ladder with the nest or leave the garage door open. The family, Mark said, went with the last option.
“We have left the garage door open for the past 2 weeks to allow the mother robin access to the nest. Hopefully, the
chicks will hatch very soon from the two eggs and we will be able to use the whole garage again.”
Posted by Mike Risinit on Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 12:15 pm |
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