1. The Bad Guys Speak.
2. My research.
A. General.
B. Official position on the current part of the project.
3. Translation.
1. The Bad Guys Speak.
The Alewife reservation is the last essentially untouched wilderness in the City of Cambridge. It is across the street from Alewife Station on the Red Line rapid transit. So naturally, the powers that be being the powers that be, they are determined to destroy it. After all they have a massive organization in place to lie to people.
One of the key people in the City Manager’s front organization in Cambridgeport has been speaking out concerning Alewife.
The bad guys love to confuse things.
Her solution for the forthcoming destruction of Alewife is to control invasives. And she is very indignant that invasives MUST be controlled.
2. My research.
A. General.
I have kept as close to the planning as is possible. I have been familiar with the plans for more than 15 years. I tried to organize but I was outdone by the Cambridge Pols with their fake protective group backed by a very massive citywide organization which passes on whatever lie the City is putting out this week.
June 30, 2011, I walked the ground at Alewife for the first time since I saw the destruction’s start standing next to the leader of the fake organization which has been “defending” Alewife by telling people to look at everything other than the important stuff.
I went into the reservation on a temporary bike path. I observed signage and existing destruction.
I did research on the city’s website.
The key documents seem to be posted at:
http://www.cambridgema.gov/theworks/cityprojects/detail.aspx?path=%2fsitecore%2fcontent%2fhome%2ftheworks%2fcityprojects%2f2011%2fcambridgeparkdrivewetlands.
B. Official position on the current part of the project.
The following is copied directly from the city’s website. I doubt that the link to YouTube will carry, but the above link will get you to this document and the rest:
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The Cambridge Department of Public Works in conjunction with NSTAR Electric, NSTAR Gas, and AT&T, began utility relocation work in the Alewife Reservation on Tuesday May 3, 2011 in advance of the start of the stormwater wetland construction. The utility work will relocate utilities beneath a portion of the Alewife Reservation and Little River to Acorn Park Drive through a process called Pilot Tube Auger Boring (PTAB). PTAB is a trenchless technology method designed to minimize disturbance in the Alewife Reservation and Little River by tunneling under the Little River. For a demonstration of PTAB please see the following video on You Tube.
The utility relocation work will include a cleared and fenced in utility relocation zone approximately 150 feet by 120 feet and a laydown area approximately 120 feet by 100 feet in the Alewife Reservation for equipment and materials and excavation of a drilling pit. Open trenching of the underground utilities will be performed from the staging area south to the connection points to existing utilities adjacent to the existing bike path. This work is expected to be completed by the end of July 2011 to allow the utilities to make connections to their existing systems.
This utility relocation work is in preparation for the start of the stormwater wetlands construction anticipated to begin in October 2011.
3. Translation.
The Stormwater Wetlands Construction is the storage system which will destroy the Alewife reservation.
A responsible city government would be placing that drainage under a massive parking lot just north of the main city Commuter Rail track. This parking lot is separated from the soon to be destroyed Alewife reservation by a city street and by a private lot one office building deep. They are within view of each other.
The owner of the parking lot has plans to build on it. Delay means making the certainty of destruction of Alewife that much more firm.
The current work is destructive but the very massive destruction will start the day after the fake environmentalists on the Cambridge City Council are put to the vote in the City Elections.
One of Cambridge’s really rotten traditions is that the really dirty work starts the day after the City Elections.
So the incumbents can lie about which side they are on. Then the truth comes out after it is too late.
