please make your voices heard regarding the massachusetts clean water act!

August 1, 2008 at 1:35 pm | In Nantucket Sound, barnstable, barnstable town council, cape cod, cape cod bay, centerville, clean water act, janet, janet joakim, joakim, massachusetts, muncipal government, municpal politics, swain |
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Below is a message from Senator O’Leary regarding a piece of legislation that effects all of us as we consider the options facing us regarding Cape Cod’s waste-water management.

Please consider the news story in today’s CC Times, and use the message and the guidelines included below to help make contact with state officials. A note, we need to contact more than our own legislators. We need to send message to Governor Patrick and we must approach legislators who represent districts outside of Cape Cod who might not understand our environmental issues.

Message from Senator O’Leary:

Friends:

I am writing to ask you to contact your membership regarding the Massachusetts Clean Water Act, which was passed by the legislature as part of the environmental bond bill. The Environmental Bond currently sits on the Governor’s desk. Please contact your membership and friends to ask them to contact the governor’s office to ask him to support the Clean Water Act portion of the bill WITHOUT AMENDMENT. I have attached contact information for the Governor, as well as a script that you may disseminate to individuals which they may use for guidance when contacting the Governor’s office.

With your assistance, we will give cities and towns the tools and financial assistance to address one of the largest remaining environmental problems in the Commonwealth.

Thank you.

Senator Robert A. O’Leary

 

His Excellency Deval Patrick, Governor
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Room 360, State House
Boston, MA  02133

Please call the Governor’s office at 617.725.4005

(or use this link:  http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3utilities&sid=Agov3&U=Agov3_contact_us )

 

I would like to ask the Governor’s support of the Massachusetts Clean Water Act, part of the Environmental Bond Bill which was passed by the legislature and awaits his approval.

Rivers, bays and estuaries across the state are overloaded with nutrients from poorly treated wastewater.  Cities and towns across the state are in violation of the Federal Clean Water Act, and the cost of addressing these obligations is only going up. 

The Massachusetts Clean Water Act would offer important planning tools, and 0% loans to cities and towns to address wastewater problems in rivers, bays and estuaries across the state. 

This provision will provide significant local aid, and has the endorsement of environmental, housing and labor groups, as well as the business community. 

If we don’t address this problem now, we will see increased financial stress on local and state budgets, and on individual homeowners.

PLEASE APPROVE THE MA CLEAN WATER ACT WITHOUT AMENDMENT. 

Thank you.

 

Cape eyes $1B no-interest fund for water woes

August 01, 2008

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080801/NEWS/808010337

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  1. Thank you!
    Please support this bill agressively Barnstable!
    The entire Cape needs to work together to get this bill passed!
    All this silliness by the people in your town who want to find problems with everything you do is taking away from the good we can all do together from if we all work on these issues as one Cape Cod Community!
    J L G - Dennis

    Comment by J G Dennis — August 2, 2008 #

  2. Janet
    how are your daughters doing with all of this stuff? Remember they are the top priority no matter where they are and how old they are.
    Best to John.
    Ella

    Comment by ella — August 5, 2008 #

  3. thanks e -
    we are all fine - the girls are great.
    They know about all of this and are definitely concerned, but also doing exciting thing with their lives. R was in Africa then Australia and is visiting for a week or so before heading back to school and M is going to spain for the fall semester
    j

    Comment by JSJ — August 5, 2008 #

  4. no more websites about the girls?
    just tried to look at one and that woman is scared and took them down, right?

    Comment by Anonymous — August 7, 2008 #

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