1. “Charles River Swim” announced.
2. “Charles River Swim” scheduled to avoid pollution of the Charles River created by environmental irresponsibility of the DCR.
3. Destruction of Magazine Beach playing fields follows the lead of the environmental destruction at Ebersol Fields.
4. Further destruction by the Charles River “Conservancy” and related.
5. Photo op by the Charles River “Conservancy.”
6. Further water related uses destroyed.
7. Two fake groups implement successful destruction tactics at Alewife to attack the Charles River.
1. “Charles River Swim” announced.
The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” has posted an announcement from another non profit that registration for this year’s “Charles River Swim” is now open.
As usual when dealing with the destructive entities running around cheerleading efforts on the Charles River and related environmental targets, there is a key omission.
2. “Charles River Swim” scheduled to avoid pollution of the Charles River created by environmental irresponsibility of the DCR.
The key omission this time is the timing of the Charles River Swim. The Charles River Swim is supposed to celebrate the cleanliness of the Charles. The key omission is that the swim schedule has been moved forward to avoid contamination of the Charles by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The contamination came about as part of one of the favorite activities of those involved: dumping poisons on the river banks.
There is a large group of ball fields on the South Side of the Charles River near Massachusetts General Hospital. Without giving respect to a bunch of bureacratese, a good name to refer to them as is Ebersol Fields.
You see, the DCR, with its usual contempt for the environment dumped poisons on Ebersol Fields to keep sickly grass alive. The poisons did not work, so the DCR dumped poisons there which were marked not for use near water bodies.
The next day, the Charles River was dead, from the Massachusetts Avenue (aka Harvard) Bridge to the Harbor with an infestation of algae. This infestation is repeated annually.
Because of this infestation caused by the DCR, the Charles River is very much unswimmable during the infestation.
3. Destruction of Magazine Beach playing fields follows the lead of the environmental destruction at Ebersol Fields.
The outrageous series of contractor welfare projects at Magazine Beach follows the lead of Ebersol Fields. These contractor beneficial projects took playing fields which, according to all knowledgeable independent people I spoke with, did not need “improvement.”
So the DCR and Cambridge “improved” playing fields which did not need improvement.
They dug up seven acres of grass and dirt which had survived nicely without poisons for the better part of a century. They have replaced the seven acres or perfectly good environment with an inferior seven acres. The healthy grass was replaced with sickly stuff that cannot survive without poisons. To keep the poisons out of the Charles River, a significant part of the perfectly good playing fields were destroyed for a fancy drainage system. The fancy drainage system drains off poisons needed to keep alive grasses which should not even be there.
4. Further destruction by the Charles River “Conservancy” and related.
Almost immediately after the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” assumed responsibility for destruction of ground vegetation on the Charles River, the ground vegetation between the BU Bridge and the BU Boathouse to its east came under attack.
Over the years, almost all the ground vegetation in this area not slated to be destroyed by the BU Bridge project was destroyed.
This is the area to which the DCR and Cambridge have consigned the Charles River White Geese when they barred the Charles River White Geese from Magazine Beach with the bizarre wall of introduced bushes and poisoned grass.
At the same time as the DCR did their first dig up of Magazine Beach with deliberate barriers installed, Cambridge walled off the riverbank east of the BU Boathouse. Supposedly this massive walling off was for a sewer project.
Supposedly, the timing of the sewer project to take away all the Charles River White Geese’s food was strictly a coincidence.
Cambridge and the DCR have destroyed hundreds if not thousands of resident animals as part of the bizarre Alewife project.
I have seen the shock on the face of members of the Boston Conservation Commission receiving a report of environmental destruction on the south side of the Charles River by the Charles River “Conservancy.”
The BU Bridge project was planned by the DCR. It was needlessly and deliberately cruel to the Charles River White Geese, destroying a significant part of the tiny ghetto to which the DCR and Cambridge assigned them.
5. Photo op by the Charles River “Conservancy.”
The fake group, the Charles River “Conservancy” conducted a photo opportunity during the destruction. They swam off Magazine Beach, bragging about swimming there.
The DCR and Cambridge have walled off Magazine Beach with a bizarre wall of introduced bushes which they lie are “native” but are certainly not native to the Charles River.
The Charles River Conservancy and its friends have yet to explain how dumping poisons on the banks of the Charles River and walling off the Charles River from Magazine Beach assists in swimming off Magazine Beach.
6. Further water related uses destroyed.
The DCR claims it is concerned to keep water related uses on the Charles River. Another part of the project seems to have closed a boat ramp which was in use for the better part of a century.
The DCR publicly brags that it is killing off all animals living on the Charles River Basin. Naturally, they use euphemisms. The euphemism is parklands. Their definition of parklands is: “No resident animals need apply.”
The project manager has publicly bragged that the bizarre wall starves the Charles River White Geese, keeping them from grasses on which they have fed for the better part of the last 30 plus years.
The project manager previously has lied, repeatedly that he has no intention to harm the Charles River White Geese. The article printed in the Boston Globe when the destruction of Magazine Beach started quoted his lie.
He has more recently explained that, in his world, starving them is not harming them.
Starting in 2003, the Charles River “Conservancy” ran around the Charles River poisoning the eggs of as much migratory waterfowl as they can get away with.
Starting in 2003, the Charles River “Conservancy” has around destroying pretty much all protective vegetation lining the Charles River twice a year.
The only exception, the bizarre introduced wall at Magazine Beach.
There is a common factor. Destroying protective vegetation everywhere else drives away migratory waterfowl. Letting the bizarre wall at Magazine Beach grow and grow and grow starves the Charles River White Geese.
In the world of the DCR, Cambridge and their cheerleaders / destroyers, migratory waterfowl are not water related uses.
In the world of the DCR, Cambridge and their cheerleaders / destroyers, resident waterfowl are not water related uses.
In the world of the DCR, Cambridge and their cheerleaders / destroyers, the boat ramp they seem to have destroyed at Magazine Beach is not a water related uses.
7. Two fake groups implement successful destruction tactics at Alewife to attack the Charles River.
These facts are part of the facts which were shouted down by the “Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association” during the public hearing in which they allowed representatives of this destructive DCR agency with truth problems to say whatever they wanted.
The two entities, the “Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association” and the Charles River “Conservancy” have joined forces to “celebrate”: Magazine Beach, a celebration which bars discussion of the above but which glorifies the destruction of the picnic area west of the Magazine Beach playing fields, as usual, without mentioning the destruction.
They are following the lead of the very successful tactics used for the destruction of the core Alewife reservation by a related group which ran around “defending” Alewife for the past 15 years.
Don’t look at what we are destroying, look at us yelling our half truths falsely praising our future destruction.
