A record of really bad government performance on the Charles River.
My Charles River Report has been published on line by the Cambridge City Clerk.
A committee of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation went through a process of public input by ZOOM on May 25, 2023 on the Charles River. I was, of course, prevented from meaningful response.
I did not last long after I gave my summary: I very strongly think the best thing the DCR can do for the Charles River is to transfer its authority to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
I worked on my detailed analysis of the outrage as it has occurred and CURRENT bad initiatives. I mailed the report just in time for delivery by the Cambridge City Clerk to the Cambridge City Council at its June 26, 2023 meeting. Mailing essentially simultaneously went out the the Department CEO, the relevant Committee, the Governor of Massachusetts and the Cambridge City Manager.
My analysis was published by the Cambridge City Clerk as part of the, June 23, 2023 on line publishing of the agenda for the June 26 2023 meeting. My big issue is how to communicate it concisely on this blog.
The report is so detailed and so extremely good, I have difficulty changing format to spell it out on this blog. A lot of the value of the report is in how it is spelled out in hard copy.
Its publication on line is at https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True, pages 2654 to 2713.
Officially, it is Communication 177 on the Agenda for the Cambridge City Council it is almost at the end of the agenda on line. The official name is: “More detailed comments on the DCR PARTIALLY presented to Stewardship Council at its public meeting of May 25, 2023.”
I apologize for not having a more communicative title on the hard copy.
Here is the INDEX to the report. I will follow up with some segments. I am particularly fond of my transmittal letter to the Cambridge City Manager, but right now, this is what I have to give to you now:
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0. Introduction.
1. Recommendations.
2. Two key documents which are of interest.
A. My video communicating the massive destruction inflicted on the Charles River in and around January 2016, and the destruction behind false “announcements.”.
B. Destruction at the Magazine Beach Recreation Area.
3. The outrage of January 2016, Western Portion.
4. The Outage at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A. East of the Magnificent Cherry Grove, West of the Mass. Ave. / Harvard Bridge.
B. East of the Mass. Ave. / Harvard Bridge.
5. Attacks on the Wild Area during my exposure to it..
A. Location of the Wild Area.
B. Urban Ring.
C. Possible Excuses.
6. Continued outrages against the Charles River White Geese / their Destroyed Nesting Area.
A. “White Geese of Cambridge”
B. Attacks by Boston University and accomplices.
(1) Initial stages of destruction.
(2) Heartless abuse and environmental destruction including attacks on nesting geese, assassination, rape and murder, the “reaction” of the Cambridge City Council.
(3) Continuing outrages.
(4) BU Created a lawn. CRC & Friends destroyed lawn. DESTRUCTION OF GROUND VEGETATION EVERYWHERE except planned BU Bridge construction work area.
C B.U. Bridge Work
D. Railroad Work
E. More Starvation from the DCR. Blocking of food under Memorial Drive.
F. Impact of destroying the Wild Area.
7. Magazine Beach Recreation Area, General.
8. Walling off the Magazine Beach Playing Fields in the Name of a “Lawn to the River.” General.
9. The Poisoning of the Charles River by the DCR’s agent, a Contractor who also works on the Charles River for the Cambridge City Council.
10. SECRET “improvements”by the Cambridge City Council. A - procedures, “New Dock”
A. Procedures.
B. “New” Dock WITHOUT BEING AT ALL NEW.
11. The Ball Field Maple.
12. SECRET “improvements”by the Cambridge City Council. B , A “View of the River.”
A. General.
B. The “View of the River.”
C. What should be done.
13. Magazine Street Park.
14. Outrage at the Pedestrian Bridge over Memorial Drive..
15. MicroCenter Grove.
16. Summary.
Attachments
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The Index got too big to spell out the attachments in the Index. I spelled them out at the end:
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1. Magazine Beach Destruction agreed to and provided to the Cambridge City Council in 2019 by the GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR designated by the City of Cambridge as the ONLY PERSON (WITH FRIENDS) ALLOWED TO HAVE “PUBLIC INPUT” on projects in the BU Bridge area. She previously poisoned the Charles River on behalf of the DCR (see above) and assisted the January 2016 outrage as part of a standard Cambridge Company Union claimed to be a “protective group” (Look only at what we tell you to look at.)
2. Author’s proposal for new Green Line A mass transit route, better for Cambridge transportation without the damage fought for by the “planners.” Better for Biden money that the bizarre bureaucracy beloved proposals.
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