Your Letters 3 Proposed Future Site of Our New Sullivan West School

Your Letters 3: Proposed Future Site of Our New Sullivan West School

Tony Wayne & Committee for Reform
Box 11
Fremont Center NY 12736
845-887-5061

Editor;

The phony hoopla surrounding the SULLIVAN WEST HIGH SCHOOL groundbreaking ceremonies is just so much nonsense designed to divert public attention from the real issues that need to be faced right now about a very bad situation that will not go away.

I know that the SULLIVAN WEST administration, Sullivan County BOCES and the School Board are going to do their best to cover up and deny the facts concerning the terrible "free" site they picked at Lake Huntington for the new high school.

However, the public deserves the TRUTH about the real situation and there is much more that needs to be disclosed about the site. Here is some additional information that I didn’t have the space to include in my previous letter. The driveway will be on a three level uphill grade to the new school which will be unsafe in WINTER. It appears that the main structure could be erected on top of the remains of a buried building and the cafeteria is going to be built on top of a garbage dump. I have picture to prove it.

There are numbers of geese flocking around the beaver ponds. They are protected species and unlikely to leave the area after the high school is completed. I know of two different football fields in two different states where flocks of geese of this magnitude made the football fields unusable because they heavily manured and slimed them.

Also, our Lake Huntington [swampland] property is overrun with beaver and muskrats which are primary carriers of extremely contagious GIARDIA PROTOZOA and CRYPTOSPORIDIUM, the waterborne parasites that have infected the water supply around Scranton for years. Given the high water table, it is quite likely the wells servicing the new high school are eventually going to be contaminated with these fecal parasites just as the greater Scranton water supply is to this day. The parasites are resistant to CHLORINE and other purification procedures. You never heard the SULLIVAN WEST administration or Sullivan County BOCES address this risk. I wonder WHY?

As far as the very real possibility of SULLIVAN WEST students and staff contracting mosquito carried WEST NILE FEVER because of the proximity of the campus to the extensive swampland that surrounds it is concerned, there is no good solution to the problem if you insist on building on this site.

You can’t legally drain the swamps because they are ecologically important and sensitive areas. If you spray the wetlands areas with insecticides on a continuous basis, you risk exposing the students and staff to all kinds of man made, chemically triggered, illnesses.

No one knows what else will be found on this obviously polluted property. For example, my son who is a woodsman like his father, discovered a huge partially buried empty tank that a skidder had fallen through. God only knows what was in the tank originally.

With all the VIRGIN undeveloped land in Sullivan County, I can’t believe our three communities gave up their INDEPENDENCE to build a school on such a dangerous site.

If something isn’t done to correct the situation, I can foresee huge lawsuits down the road from irate parents with horribly sick kids. We have a major disaster in the making, but it isn’t too late to stop it from happening.

Since construction work is only starting, we can still walk away from this site at minimum expense to the DISTRICT.

Sincerely

Tony Wayne &
Committee for Reform

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