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Dear Editor:
While vacationing in a natural paradise in the North country, I had a rare cell signal and took the chance to catch up on news in the Hamilton County Reporter. I was extremely dismayed to see the proposed plans for the Beaver pit in Potter’s Bridge Park. My stomach curled up in knots considering the ramifications of this project.
I question the environmental knowledge base of the city, the county, the Hamilton County Parks Board, and Beaver as they even consider allowing a water gravel pit in this lovely area. We all know what a project of this type will include heavy trucks rumbling along Allisonville Road, dust from the digging, noise, destruction of the peaceful park walks, and disruption of the natural cycles of its inhabitants.
Why would we do that when the river is the focal point of the park? Why would we do that and inflict undue noise and air pollution on the neighborhoods in the area? Why would we do that when those high-speed gravel trucks decimate the roads? Why would we consider anything that would add even more particulate matter into our already compromised air and water supply? Why would we do that when the noise and disruption of such a project will inhibit natural rhythms of the river, its aquatic, land, and air inhabitants. Why would we turn a peaceful, lovely natural area into a gravel pit project?
What are these people thinking? Why does this county and this state continue to ignore healthy environmental initiatives that could make us an area of natural beauty for all to enjoy in various ways?
So, if this disputed project is approved, there will eventually be a lake. So what? We have a river! Is this project worth the environmental destruction it will cost the area?
Please, consider adding your voice to the petitions circulating against this project.
Pamela Dunn-Louks
Cicero