Comments on: Support the “Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act”! http://www.cnt.org/news/2009/02/27/support-the-green-infrastructure-for-clean-water-act/ Sustainable Communities. Attainable Results. Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:33:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Illinois Moves Toward More Sustainable Stormwater Management : Center for Neighborhood Technology http://www.cnt.org/news/2009/02/27/support-the-green-infrastructure-for-clean-water-act/comment-page-1/#comment-36139 Illinois Moves Toward More Sustainable Stormwater Management : Center for Neighborhood Technology Thu, 28 May 2009 19:12:30 +0000 http://www.cnt.org/news/?p=886#comment-36139 [...] Legislature took a significant step toward statewide sustainable water policy by passing the Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act, SB 1489. The bill sets the state on a path toward more effective and sustainable urban stormwater [...] [...] Legislature took a significant step toward statewide sustainable water policy by passing the Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act, SB 1489. The bill sets the state on a path toward more effective and sustainable urban stormwater [...]

]]> By: April Bringing Cleaner Water to Illinois? : Center for Neighborhood Technology http://www.cnt.org/news/2009/02/27/support-the-green-infrastructure-for-clean-water-act/comment-page-1/#comment-35415 April Bringing Cleaner Water to Illinois? : Center for Neighborhood Technology Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:22:31 +0000 http://www.cnt.org/news/?p=886#comment-35415 [...] The Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act (SB 1489), CNT’s effort to bring the benefits of natural systems for sustainable stormwater management into state plans, is headed for its first hearing in the Illinois House on Wednesday, April 29, having passed the Senate in March. That bill would instruct Illinois EPA to lead a study to establish state standards and goals for expanded, effective use of green infrastructure in urban areas statewide. [...] [...] The Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act (SB 1489), CNT’s effort to bring the benefits of natural systems for sustainable stormwater management into state plans, is headed for its first hearing in the Illinois House on Wednesday, April 29, having passed the Senate in March. That bill would instruct Illinois EPA to lead a study to establish state standards and goals for expanded, effective use of green infrastructure in urban areas statewide. [...]

]]> By: Katie Armstrong http://www.cnt.org/news/2009/02/27/support-the-green-infrastructure-for-clean-water-act/comment-page-1/#comment-34771 Katie Armstrong Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:40:47 +0000 http://www.cnt.org/news/?p=886#comment-34771 I wonder if you include PROTECTION OF OUR AQUIFERS in the support of the CLEAN WATER ACT . We in Park Forest have four wellheads within the proposed EJ&E Canadien National easement . The majority of the freight carried by CN is hazardous . The number of trains will increase by 400%. As you know State law bans all hazardous waste within a thousand foot radius of the wellhead , which exposes the aquifer to runoff down the well piping . As you know aquifers cannot be cleaned , they must be protected. Many of the municipalities along the arc have their clean water source similarily threatened . It seems to me that transport of hazardous waste ought to be banned in all urban areas. The Draft EIS of the CN proposal states that 300 jobs will be LOST by this project . Hardly worth the risk. Now is the time to plan our rail system to benefit people. Passenger rail benefits us; freight trains are dangerous , noisy, traffic stoppers . Being "freight handler to the nation" does nothing to improve the quality of life in Metropolitan Chicago. Plan to move freight from coast to coast through rural America , with no on- grade crossings , using easements along the more lightly used truck routes . Do it right. Decisions made now will be with us for centuries. I wonder if you include PROTECTION OF OUR AQUIFERS in

the support of the CLEAN WATER ACT . We in Park

Forest have four wellheads within the proposed EJ&E

Canadien National easement . The majority of the

freight carried by CN is hazardous . The number of

trains will increase by 400%. As you know State

law bans all hazardous waste within a thousand

foot radius of the wellhead , which exposes the

aquifer to runoff down the well piping . As you

know aquifers cannot be cleaned , they must be

protected. Many of the municipalities along the

arc have their clean water source similarily

threatened .

It seems to me that transport of hazardous

waste ought to be banned in all urban

areas. The Draft EIS of the CN proposal states

that 300 jobs will be LOST by this

project . Hardly worth the risk.

Now is the time to plan our rail system to

benefit people. Passenger rail benefits

us; freight trains are dangerous , noisy, traffic

stoppers . Being “freight handler to the

nation” does nothing to improve the quality of life

in Metropolitan Chicago. Plan to move

freight from coast to coast through

rural America , with no on- grade

crossings , using easements along the

more lightly used truck routes . Do

it right. Decisions made now will be with us

for centuries.

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