1. December 2017, the creation of the Charles River Algae Blight of 2019.
A. The blockage of the key poison drainage pit. Photo December 7, 2017
B. Algae pond “appeared” next to the blocked poison drainage pit, Photo May 2, 2108, Phil Barber
2. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation PUBLICLY CONFESSES to the Creation of the Charles River Algae Blight of 2019.
3. The City of Cambridge removes vegetation destroyed as part of the outrage of December 2017.
4. September 2018, The Algae Blight of 2019 begins to take form off the banks of Magazine Beach.
5. Detailed photos of the outrage of December 2017.
A. Fake Protectors WORKING FOR THE DCR block the Poison Drainage, December 7, 2017.
B. City of Cambridge picks up the residue of destroyed vegetation, December 7, 2017.
C. Phil’s photos at the blocked poison drainage pit, 2 more days.
(1) July 5, 2018.
(2) July 27, 2018
D. My photos of the blocked the Drainage Pit, 2 more days.
(1) April 13, 2018
(2) April 28, 2018
6. Analysis.
7. Selected Communications.
8. What should be done.
A. Finish the Destruction of the Metropolitan District Commission and vacate all destructive funds and heartless animal abuse in any manner..
B. Clean up the Destructive Cambridge City Council, vacate all destructive funds and orders of support of destructive behavior / heartless animal abuse in any manner..
1. December 2017, the creation of the Charles River Algae Blight of 2019.
A. The blockage of the key poison drainage pit. Photo December 7, 2017
B. Algae pond “appeared” next to the blocked poison drainage pit, Photo May 2, 2108, Phil Barber
2. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation PUBLICLY CONFESSES to the Creation of the Charles River Algae Blight of 2019.
The DCR explains how Cambridge, the DCR, the Cambridge City Council, and the City Council’s “kind of activist” created the massive poisoning of the Charles this year.
Also note that the lying euphemisms in the first column become “chemicals” in the second. Fraud only works so much.
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Footnote after "much:" Full language in section 6, below, as part of the detailed analysis.
Caption added to right of photo: Photo by Phil Barber.
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NOTE THE SECOND COLUMN!!!!
Photos December 7, 2017.
4. September 2018, The Algae Blight of 2019 begins to take form off the banks of Magazine Beach.
Photos by Phil Barber.
5. Detailed photos of the outrage of December 2017.
A. Fake Protectors WORKING FOR THE DCR block the Poison Drainage, December 7, 2017.
B. City of Cambridge picks up the residue of destroyed vegetation, December 7, 2017.
C. Phil’s photos at the blocked poison drainage pit, 2 more days.
(1) July 5, 2018.
(2) July 27, 2018
D. My photos of the blocked the Drainage Pit, 2 More Days.
(1) April 13, 2018
(2) April 28, 2018
Blow up of left central area in the above between the walk and the blocked drainage.
6. Analysis.
A. General.
The Cambridge City Council, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and their friends have a long list of reprehensible environmental destruction and heartless animal abuse.
In spite of the reprehensible real record, key Cambridge City Councillors pretty much constantly proclaim themselves environmental saints. They have a massive machine running around the city spouting this nonsense in spite of reality.
At least now, one outrage is getting publicity, yelling at the other guy, of course.
That is the poisoning of the Charles River which has been reflected THIS TIME by a month or more of algae befouling Cambridge’s portion of the Charles River.
I have spent 40 years standing up to such outrages with very visible victories.
This latest outrage was documented on this blog on August 18, 2019, under the title, “Charles River: Govt. Poisons, Algae Blight related to poisons, persist.” at https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/charles-river-poisons-algae-blight.html. A similar letter was simultaneously present to the Cambridge City Council through the City Clerk for receipt by them at their September 9, 2019, meeting.
A public presentation of the DCR concerning the current outrage at Magazine Beach gave good reason to anticipate expansion of poison use from just the playing fields to the middle, park area and the western, pool area. This would be in addition to destruction of the heartless animal abuse and destruction of 59 mostly excellent trees. (The latter number keeps growing.)
Several years ago, friends of the DCR, etc., started organizing an annual swim in, falsely stating that the government agencies are on the correct side of cleanliness in the Charles River, rather than the reality in which the government agencies yell at the other guy while the government agencies have horribly filthy hands.
That first one day algae blight occurred
This time we have seen more than a month long infestation, rather clearly stemming from the blocking of the bigger drainage pits, blocking organized by a friend of the governmental agencies with the assistance of the governmental agencies in December 2017. She has clearly blocked the drainage as an agent of the DCR.
She bragged of funding by the Trump administration.
She has been described from the floor of the Cambridge City Council as their “kind of activist” That description of her was the only explanation I recall presented by any member of the Cambridge City Council for one of many recent secret and destructive votes concerning the Charles River taken by the Cambridge City Council.
The poisonings of the Charles River by their “kind of activist” has been objected to to the Cambridge City Council in many of my letters on behalf of Friends of the White Geese.
She has been described from the floor of the Cambridge City Council as their “kind of activist” That description of her was the only explanation I recall presented by any member of the Cambridge City Council for one of many recent secret and destructive votes concerning the Charles River taken by the Cambridge City Council.
The poisonings of the Charles River by their “kind of activist” has been objected to to the Cambridge City Council many of my letters on behalf of Friends of the White Geese.
Here is more supporting documentation.
B. DCR Sign Explains how its destructive agents poisoned the Charles with the outrage of December 2017.
This sign was posted by the DCR near the blockage.
Cambridge and the DCR introduced poisons (love those euphemisms, note the operative language calls them “chemicals.”) onto Magazine Beach. There is absolutely no business of poisons being dumped on the banks of the Charles River.
So to keep these totally unfit poisons out of the Charles River, they spent a lot of money putting in a poison drainage system.
In December 2017, they, acting through a woman who has been fighting for destruction for years, BLOCKED THE POISON DRAINAGE SYSTEM.
In 2019, for at least a month, the Charles River has been infested with algae. Note the right hand column of the sign:
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When it rains, the chemicals wash from the playing fields and toward the river. If the phosphorus reaches the river, it can cause algae blooms that use up oxygen in the water, creating a harmful environment for fish and other wildlife.
Wetlands are the gatekeepers that prevent this from happening. Constructed in 2009, these wetlands trap and filter out damaging fertilizers that would otherwise wash into the river.
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The DCR has proudly proclaimed on this sign how it, Cambridge and the Cambridge City Council’s “kind of activist” created 2019's month plus long algae outrage in the Charles River.
The DCR and their friend blocked the expensively created drainage for poisons which should not be used on the banks of the Charles River. The reason why the poisons should not be used is THE EXACT REASON WHICH HAS APPEARED IN THE CHARLES, poisoning by algae as the result of blatantly irresponsible behavior by government and friends.
The DCR, Cambridge and their friends did exactly what the DCR condemned in that sign.
Really, repeating the entire list is out of whack.
My video of the destruction of more than 150 mostly excellent trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridge is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.
Destruction was accomplished by Cambridge and the DCR with the Cambridge City Council’s “kind of activist” loudly running around, presenting herself as a protector of the Charles River and telling her victims not to look at the destruction.
This video includes plans for destruction of more than a hundred trees in the Wild Area, the thick woods between the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and the Boston University. The doomed Wild Area dominates the view of Cambridge and the Charles from the BU Bridge looking downriver.
That is going forward with the usual dishonesty. Here is my post spelling that out.
https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/comments-on-memorial-drive-phase-iii.html.
The Cambridge City Council has supported the destruction of 59 mostly excellent trees west of the BU Bridge in the Magazine Beach recreation area.
At last count the city council support of destruction of the Wild Area destruction has increased that number from 59 to 159 in addition to 150 plus in the January 2016 outrage, and who knows what else is secret. The euphemism for the destruction of the Wild Area is “Phase III.”
The plans at Magazine Beach when the threat was “only 54" were submitted to the Cambridge Conservation Commission. I submitted the plans with photos of doomed trees to the Cambridge City Council many times in one part or another. The basic letter is posted at http://focrwg.com/agenda1.html.
This letter presented the FILED destruction plans by the DCR which project in turn has been increased, by the Cambridge City Council. The initial vote was taken by the Cambridge City Council in their first policy vote FOLLOWING A CELEBRATION OF THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL SAINTLINESS on the steps of Cambridge City Hall.
This outrage was also presented in the video.
The key woman who created this algae infestation on the Charles River is also the principal person fighting for the destruction of those 59 mostly excellent trees at Magazine Beach. As usual, she is keeping the destruction secret hidden by words glorifying the project WHICH WORDS NEVER MENTION THE MASSIVE TREE DESTRUCTION.
Now she is publicly bragging about DEFENDING MATURE TREES. Obviously she is bragging about the LONELY TREES she is not destroying. DO NOT LOOK AT WHAT SHE IS DESTROYING. LOOK AT WHAT SHE IS TELLING YOU TO LOOK AT AS USUAL.
These plans have repeatedly been presented to the Cambridge City Council. The Cambridge City Council has responded with secret votes which have already destroyed trees. Their secret votes heartlessly attack animal habitat on the banks of the Charles River. The Cambridge City Council happily shares costs with the destructive state agency. They split the costs so that the MOST OBVIOUS DIRTY work is funded by the state agency, while the City Council SO FAR destroys trees and animal habitat closer nearer to the Charles River.
Then again, while Cambridge and the state agency were happily destroying more than 150 mostly excellent trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, the lead poisoner was telling people not to look at that.
One of her fake protective groups barred discussion of the destruction on grounds of lack of jurisdiction as the destruction was about to start.
That fake protective group then discussed whether to seek a payoff from the state agency after destruction WHICH THEY HAD ENABLED had proceeded.
Our video on the January 2016 destruction outrage is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.
8. What should be done.
A. Finish the Destruction of the Metropolitan District Commission and vacate all destructive funds and heartless animal abuse in any manner.
The legislature started the correction of Charles River destructiveness when it destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission.
The legislature failed in this task when the destructive planners simply moved to the Department of Conservation and Recreation with their vile plans and proceeded to destroy using a new name.
The Department of Transportation has officially performed part of the MDC responsibilities on the Charles River since the MDC was destroyed. MassDOT has been the adult in a room also occupied by the reprehensible DCR and City of Cambridge.
MassDOT has stood up to the destructive DCR and City of Cambridge at important, valuable times.
DCR responsibilities on the Charles River must be transferred to MassDOT by the legislature, WITHOUT TRANSFER OF DCR employees to MassDOT. Action should vacate all destructive funds and heartless animal abuse in any manner.
B. Clean up the Destructive Cambridge City Council, vacate all destructive funds and orders of support of destructive behavior / heartless animal abuse in any manner.
One Cambridge City Council incumbent has declined to seek reelection. Incumbency with its vile actions is a strong reason for any knowing environmental voter to vote against all incumbents in this year’s municipal election.
Any candidate who supports the City Council’s destructive actions on the Charles River and vacating of all destructive funds and orders of support of destructive behavior / heartless animal abuse in any manner is unfit to be elected.
Additionally, however, any candidate should be voted against who has been key in supposedly independent environment groups who have endorsed Cambridge City Council candidates with destuctive records and call such destroyers environmental saints. Key involvement in such outrageous endorsement renders such candidates unfit to be voted for by environmentally responsible voters.
The big ground level environmental problem in Cambridge, MA, is fake protective groups, whether they call themselves local or national (and controlled locally where it counts).
Any candidate who declines to seek reorganization of the state responsibilities on the Charles River and reversal / vacating of all destructive funds and orders of support of destructive behavior / heartless animal abuse in any manner as stated in 8.A, above is environmentally unfit to be elected.
