My response to her was as follows:
And Dear Mrs. Clinton,
What would you know about Long Island Sound.....you are from Chicago and Arkansas....Anything to raise our taxes to unbelievable proportions...
Get out of our lives....
KLT
Posted on 05/20/2002 4:41:41 PM PDT by KLT
***Thought this might be of interest to you:
Clinton Provision to Clean Up Long Island Sound Passes Senate Environment Committee
Establishes Program that Would Reduce Nitrogen Levels in Discharge from Sewage Treatment Plants Surrounding the Sound
Washington, DC - Today, the Senate Environment and Public Work (EPW) Committee passed legislation that included a provision offered by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) to create a $500 million grant program to improve the capability of sewage treatment plants to remove nitrogen from wastewater discharges - a serious problem in Long Island Sound. Excess nitrogen can cause algae blooms, eutrophication, low dissolved oxygen levels - known as hypoxia, and ultimately fishkills.
This new grant program passed as part of "The Water Investment Act of 2002" (S. 1961), legislation which authorizes $20 billion over five years for clean water projects and $15 billion over five years for safe drinking water projects. This funding would be provided primarily through already established State Revolving Loan Funds.
The Long Island Sound is an important recreational and commercial resource for the region - with more than 8 million people living in the watershed. It is estimated that about $5 billion is generated annually in the regional economy from boating, commercial and sport fishing, swimming, and beach going. The Sound's ability to support recreational and commercial is contingent on the quality of its waters, living resources and habitats. The Long Island Sound Study - part of EPA's National Estuary Program -- has identified low dissolved oxygen as the most significant water quality problem in Long Island Sound.
"Long Island Sound is truly one of New York's and America's natural treasures -- playing a vital role both in the environmental and economic health of this region with more than 8 million people living within the watershed. But the Sound is still a far cry from what it should or can be," Senator Clinton said. "The Sound is under extraordinary strain: every day, it must absorb runoff from 44 municipal sewage treatment plants. I am so pleased that the legislation we passed in Committee today includes a provision I offered creating a new program to help clean-up Long Island Sound. By reducing the levels of nitrogen that are discharged into the Sound, we can begin to return it to its natural splendor."
Wastewater treatment plants discharge over one billion gallons of treated wastewater a day into Long Island Sound, including thousands of pounds of nitrogen. Excessive nitrogen levels can result in accelerated eutrophication, algae blooms, and eventually hypoxia. Excessive algae growth can result in brown and red tides and other harmful blooms, which have been linked to fish kills. Upgrading these water treatment plants to remove more nitrogen from their effluent is an effective solution.
Specifically, the clean-up program pushed by Clinton would provide competitive grants to states and municipalities to upgrade the nutrient removal technologies of wastewater treatment plants to reduce total nitrogen in wastewater discharges. The specified nitrogen levels to be achieved are so low that only areas with significant nitrogen problems, such as the Long Island Sound, would likely apply. Projects would be cost-shared, with 55 percent of project costs being covered by the new federal grants. The program would be authorized at a total of $500 million -- $100 for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2007.
Nitrogen loading is such a problem in Long Island Sound that the States of New York and Connecticut recently completed and EPA approved a nitrogen limit - referred to as a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) -- in April 2001. The TMDL is consistent with an earlier, July 1998 bi-state agreement establishing a 58.5 percent reduction in nitrogen loads to the Sound over a 15 year period, ending in 2014. Under this agreed upon load, approximately 23 sewage treatment plants in NY would be required to reduce nitrogen loads from 159,026 pounds per day to 65,479 pounds/day - about a 60 percent decrease.
Even more recently, New York City entered into an historic Consent Agreement with the State of New York, in conjunction with the Office of the New York State Attorney General, to upgrade its four upper East River sewage treatment plants for nitrogen control and upgrade secondary treatment at the Newtown Creek facility. The City will invest $1.4 billion in capitol improvements at these facilities over the next five years, reducing the nitrogen load to Long Island Sound from these sources.
The new grant program that Clinton authored and which was passed today by the EPW Committee, of which she is a member, would significantly help in these efforts to reduce nitrogen loads to the Long Island Sound from sewage treatment plants.
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Sincerely yours, Hillary Rodham Clinton
And Dear Mrs. Clinton,
What would you know about Long Island Sound.....you are from Chicago and Arkansas....Anything to raise our taxes to unbelievable proportions...
Get out of our lives....
KLT
No wonder Shrillary's so interested in this problem; these are the same symptoms she exhibits.
WHEN is this WITCH going HOME????!!!!!!!
If only she would fly away on her phony broomstick and split, I'd be one happy NYer...
Broomsticks can burrow?
OK, so when is someone going to author a program that will reduce the methane loads generated by the Hildabeast's orally generated flatulence?
Nevermind that Nitrogen is about 78% of the atmosphere.
Idiots
There should be a law specifying truth in advertising such as, "The Screw You And Your Offspring Because This Will Cost MUCH More Than Proposed, Won't Do What's Promised Yet Will Never End Act Of 2002."
Hey bert, what's that big word mean?
Ms. Clinton's FAX number is (202) 228-0282
Can you believe this? God Help NY...We are through!
Thank you jackbill....I'm sending mine out!
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