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Showing posts with label brookhaven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brookhaven. Show all posts
Friday, October 15, 2010
Saving The Carman's River
Monday, August 9, 2010
Carmans River Television Program Scheduled Oct 1.
We had a beautiful day yesterday for the filming of the Pine Barrens Society's TV program about Carmans River, helicopter took off at 9 AM. It was quite a production, scripted by Dick Amper and filmed by Black Sheep Television Ltd. I was only one of many people who will be on the show, others include Jim Tripp, Tom Williams, Kevin McAllister, Marilyn England and MaryAnn Johnston. At some point I have to go back to the studio to do voice overs. The target date for viewing is Oct 1.
I tried to take some pictures with my own camera but it was hard to do because of the vibration, window glare and because I was supposed to be paying attention and talking about what we were looking at. By noon we were on the river in canoes and later along the shore doing interviews. We had to end filming at Wertheim Refuge and didn't make it to Squassux Landing because it was 5 PM and the TV crew called it quits. Here are a few dozen small-file size pics that you might find interesting. --Marty
6. West Island Moriches Inlet
8. Looking West Over Old Inlet Fire Island 2
9. Smiths Estate
10. Looking West Over Squassux
11. Little Neck Run & Yaphank Creek 2
12. Little Neck Run & Yaphank Creek 4
13. View Wertheim RR bridge North
14. Sunrise & Montauk Looking West
15. Hards Lake & Estate
16. Hard Estate
17. Lower Lake 2
18. North End Of Lower Lake
19. Upper Lake 3
20. Lower Lake From East Side
21. Looking South From Cathedral Pines 6
22. Looking South Toward Hards Lake 2
23. Hards Lake Sunrise Highway & South
24. View East Over Robinson Farm 2
25. View East Over Refuge HQ 2
26. View East Over Wyndotte
27. View South East Lower Carmans River
28. View South East Yaphank Creek Lower Carmans River 2
29. Yaphank Creek Indian Landing And South 4
30. Indian Landing Little Neck Run & South 2
31. Squassux Landing & South 4
32. Squassux Landing
33. Gull Island & Bridge
34. Looking South Over Old Inlet
35. Pelican Island Old Inlet & South
36. Old Inlet Pelican Island & East
37. Old Inlet & East
38. Carmans River Camp Olympia
39. Karen Interview 2
40. Marilyn Interview 3
41. Jan & Jock @ Wertheim
42. Marty @ Wertheim
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Burnett Barn Fire Followup
Tuesday Morning, January 19, 2010—I did not stay to the bitter end at the fire scene Monday night, but Tuesday morning pretty well reveal the inevitable.
Photo by Marty Van Lith
I believe that is Jen Puleston Clement examining the scene. In the background is the Hawkins Barn, carefully restored by Tom & Ellen Williams.
Photo by Marty Van Lith
Photo by John Deitz
Finally, a pen and ink sketch of "The Red Barn" by nearby neighbor Ann Wiswall:
One correspondent said the fire brought back memories of the Phillips barn fire of several decades ago (the house at 334 Beaver Dam Road.). Does anyone remember when this fire actually occurred?
Friday, January 2, 2009
Composition by Irene Hawkins dated January 20, 1880
Marty Van Lith found an interesting composition by then 15-year Irene Hawkins at the Post Morrow Foundation. Neat handwriting, bright kid. The last sentence of the composition on the second page is on top of the page.
Legend reads:
"Composition by Irene Hawkins dated January 20, 1880. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cherrington to the Brookhaven Free Library in 1983. They received it from Ernest Hawkins, nephew to Irene Hawkins.
"Irene Hawkins was born in 1865, became a teacher in the Brookhaven School, later married the principal, Jesse Johnson, and resided in her family home (now #311 Beaver Dam Road)."
The link is to Irene's data sheet in the site Hamlet People Database, where a link to the essay may be found.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Brookhaven Landfill Contaminates Groundwater & Beaver Dam Creek
Health officials eye private Brookhaven hamlet wells
BY JENNIFER SMITH jennifer.smith@newsday.com
Newsday, Long Island, NY
6:24 PM EST, December 14, 2008
Suffolk health officials are knocking on doors in Brookhaven hamlet, telling residents with private wells to have them tested for traces of a plume that originated decades earlier at the town landfill.
First discovered in 1980, the problem is believed to stem from failed landfill liners that released leachate, water that percolates through landfilled trash, into local groundwater. The plume contains ammonia and volatile organic chemicals such as chlorobenzene, an ingredient in some pesticides, and tetrachloroethylene (PCE), used in dry cleaning, according to town monitoring reports.
Water samples from Beaver Dam Creek and an irrigation well at the Hamlet Organic Garden indicate the plume has traveled southeast and is moving toward the Carmans River. Brookhaven officials said they were taking steps to map the extent of the plume, which has not been done since the 1980s.
While the contamination doesn't appear to exceed drinking water standards, some fear the ammonia could harm brook trout and other marine life. "It's very toxic to fish," said Robert Waters, supervisor of the Suffolk health department's marine bureau.
No drinking water standards have been set for ammonia and no health effects have been found in humans exposed to typical environmental concentrations, according to the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Some residents were taken aback by the news of the contamination, made public this summer in a county report on water quality in Beaver Dam Creek. Others who already knew about the plume said more should have been done to track its progress.
"It is something that was known many years, and there was a study that pointed out where it was going to go," said Thomas Williams, vice president of the Post-Morrow Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving the character of Brookhaven hamlet. The county did the water quality study at the group's behest.
The portions of the landfill where the leaks were thought to originate were capped in the 1990s to prevent more water getting in. Contamination concentrations closest to the source have since declined, town officials said.
"Eventually the leak will be cut off completely," said Ed Hubbard, Brookhaven's commissioner of waste management. "It's a 260-foot waste mass, so it's going to take some time to drain out."
The state Department of Environmental Conservation did not require further remediation because the plume not classified as hazardous waste, DEC spokesman Bill Fonda said.
The town has monitored groundwater at the landfill for years and also tested Beaver Dam Creek for traces of the contamination. Public water was extended to neighborhoods below the landfill in the late 1980s, but some property owners may not have chosen to connect at that time.
Manager Sean Pilger had both wells at the organic garden, known as the Hog Farm, tested for a wider range of contaminants than usual this year after learning of the plume's progress. Chemicals matching those in the landfill plume showed up in the farm's north well, although levels were still within drinking water standards. Pilger said the farm is drilling a deeper well to bypass the contamination.
Officials are investigating 51 properties in the potential path of the plume that may still use well water. About one-third have already been determined to be on public water and test results from six wells are pending.
The DEC will conduct a survey of Beaver Dam Creek next year to determine whether the plume has affected brook trout or other marine life.
BY JENNIFER SMITH jennifer.smith@newsday.com
Newsday, Long Island, NY
6:24 PM EST, December 14, 2008
Suffolk health officials are knocking on doors in Brookhaven hamlet, telling residents with private wells to have them tested for traces of a plume that originated decades earlier at the town landfill.
First discovered in 1980, the problem is believed to stem from failed landfill liners that released leachate, water that percolates through landfilled trash, into local groundwater. The plume contains ammonia and volatile organic chemicals such as chlorobenzene, an ingredient in some pesticides, and tetrachloroethylene (PCE), used in dry cleaning, according to town monitoring reports.
Water samples from Beaver Dam Creek and an irrigation well at the Hamlet Organic Garden indicate the plume has traveled southeast and is moving toward the Carmans River. Brookhaven officials said they were taking steps to map the extent of the plume, which has not been done since the 1980s.
While the contamination doesn't appear to exceed drinking water standards, some fear the ammonia could harm brook trout and other marine life. "It's very toxic to fish," said Robert Waters, supervisor of the Suffolk health department's marine bureau.
No drinking water standards have been set for ammonia and no health effects have been found in humans exposed to typical environmental concentrations, according to the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Some residents were taken aback by the news of the contamination, made public this summer in a county report on water quality in Beaver Dam Creek. Others who already knew about the plume said more should have been done to track its progress.
"It is something that was known many years, and there was a study that pointed out where it was going to go," said Thomas Williams, vice president of the Post-Morrow Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving the character of Brookhaven hamlet. The county did the water quality study at the group's behest.
The portions of the landfill where the leaks were thought to originate were capped in the 1990s to prevent more water getting in. Contamination concentrations closest to the source have since declined, town officials said.
"Eventually the leak will be cut off completely," said Ed Hubbard, Brookhaven's commissioner of waste management. "It's a 260-foot waste mass, so it's going to take some time to drain out."
The state Department of Environmental Conservation did not require further remediation because the plume not classified as hazardous waste, DEC spokesman Bill Fonda said.
The town has monitored groundwater at the landfill for years and also tested Beaver Dam Creek for traces of the contamination. Public water was extended to neighborhoods below the landfill in the late 1980s, but some property owners may not have chosen to connect at that time.
Manager Sean Pilger had both wells at the organic garden, known as the Hog Farm, tested for a wider range of contaminants than usual this year after learning of the plume's progress. Chemicals matching those in the landfill plume showed up in the farm's north well, although levels were still within drinking water standards. Pilger said the farm is drilling a deeper well to bypass the contamination.
Officials are investigating 51 properties in the potential path of the plume that may still use well water. About one-third have already been determined to be on public water and test results from six wells are pending.
The DEC will conduct a survey of Beaver Dam Creek next year to determine whether the plume has affected brook trout or other marine life.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Michael Ince Exhibition @ Scoto Gallery, NYC
Visionaries and Outcasts
December 4, 2008- January 24, 2009
Reception: December 4, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Michael Ince, Olalekan B. Jeyifous, Pefura
Skoto Gallery
529 W 20th St, NYCSkoto Gallery is pleased to present Visionaries and Outcasts, an exhibition of recent works by Michael Ince (USA), Olalekan B. Jeyifous (USA/Nigeria) and Pefura (France/Cameroon). The reception is Thursday, December 4th, 6-8pm and the artists will be present.
Despite their varied traditions and personal cultural backgrounds the three artists in this show respond to the challenges of developing strategies of survival and resistance in emerging societies, and in the process create aesthetic forms that respond to the consequences of political, economic and social crisis caused by policies of international financial organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank. Each of the artists explore issues such as the deterioration in the standard of living, environmental degradation, renewable energy, unemployment and migration that are likely related to the contradictory result of globalization due to policies that force these societies to devalue their currencies against the dollar; lift import and export restrictions; balance their budgets and not overspend; and remove price controls and state subsidies. This has led to the formation of mass movements and protests in every continent as people organize to combat the pillaging of the lands, resources and livelihood.
Michael Ince has always been motivated by a deep connection to nature, but over the years, the ability of social and economic policies to impact the natural world and its endangered state have become central to his practice. His sculpture installation River Bird Landing, 2008 is elegant in its poetic evocation of the fragility of our ecosystem as a result of the undermining of environmental rules and regulations. His forms, reduced to its essences are derived from nature and culture, and still suggest the actual objects to which they refer. They are the product of much thought and simple design that are meticulously crafted. He grew up in Brookhaven, Long Island where, when not in Paris, he lives with his family on a small farm surrounded by buildings of his making, planting carrots, rearing chickens, making prints and drawings, and birding. A 1964 graduate of Bowdoin College, he traveled to India as a Peace Corps, and has subsequently returned there on a major pilgrimage. He is widely exhibited in galleries around the US and in Paris; and in several collections.
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The artist Michael Ince maintains homes with his wife Zabby in Brookhaven, Long Island, and Paris, France. He has had exhibitions at the A & E (Anson & Ellen) Atelier Gallery in Chelsea, and is currently working on several large commissions in Paris.
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