The Crumb Rubber Dilemma
Mt. Lebanon is highlighted in the weekly blog of Pediatric Alliance, St. Clair Division, but not in a good way. This will not sway the four commissioners, but I found it comforting knowing that my kids' former pediatricians are blogging about the hazards of artificial turf. Thank you, Doctors!
Update November 11, 2014 7:10 AM I'm having some trouble getting the video that I took uploaded to YouTube. Here is a 17 minute snippet of the November 8, 2014 Anti-Turf Rally. http://youtu.be/uSMiLruWshA The snippet begins with Dr. Tracy Bank speaking.
Update November 11, 2014 9:56 AM Let's try it again. Here is the 37 minute video that I made. Unfortunately, it isn't from the start of the rally. It is when I started recording it. http://youtu.be/ZbX5wLIa-g0
13 comments:
Of course the commissioners response will be— 'where was the Pediatric Alliance before' and in with 'our highly trained medical backgrounds we see nothing hazardous with artificial turf. We kbow better than pediatricians.'
Of course school nurses won't have an opinion.
It is nice to know that the pediatricians blogged about this; could they write to the commissioners? It's not one neighborhood that is loosing the fight, as mentioned in their blog -- it the entire community. And when this community loses, other communities will pick up the mantel and work to sway their residents to install crumb rubber turf.
It's sad to say that I guarantee that not one of these crumb rubber supporters has ever stepped foot on a children's oncology unit. If they did, they wouldn't do this. Their ignorance is our loss.
Why will not the majority commissioners ever accept science? Did colleges stop requiring a science and a logic course?
Can you name the doctors who wrote the opinions?
5:43pm-How right you are!
Constance Spicuous Consumption
Pa-American Water is suspiciously quiet on the issue of artificially turfed fields.
If more and more fields are converted to crumb tire rubber turf won't they be responsible for filtering out the chemicals leeching into our waterways?
Interesting, hope Senator Smith and Representative Miller read this blog.
http://www.actionpa.org/pa/
"Pennsylvania is #1 In All the Wrong Things"
"Pennsylvania ranks #1 in water pollution ("NPDES") permits. In a few years leading up to 1997, DEP issued 2,026 individual discharge permits, nearly 700 more than the second-ranked state. In addition, Pennsylvania registered almost double the number of permits issued by the other EPA Region III states of Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia and Washington, D.C. combined.7"
Then there is this:
"Keeping waterways clean is not only good for the environment, it saves money, DEP spokesman Kevin Sunday said. The cleaner the water, the less it costs to treat when used for drinking or for water diverted to agriculture, which contributes more than $57 billion to the state's economy,” Sunday said."
http://triblive.com/mobile/3931286-96/clean-paddle-pollution
Seems to be a strange contradiction with the DEP positions on issuing permits, fighting for cleaner water and saving Pennsylvanians money.
9:15 pm Thank you for sharing that information. Now I understand the horrific standing of the DEP within the US. I thought it was bad, but not that bad.
7:51 pm Alcosan carries the burden for cleaning our water but the epic problem with Pittsburgh's water requires a regional approach. Other areas, like ETNA, are doing a great job... but MTL is prepare to tell you they can't do anything about it. If Albert Turfstein weren't busy, he could add some video footage of Brumfield and Deiseroth talking about how addressing flooding at Cedar would just result in new problems for other people "downstream".
10:15 Alcosan treats the water that flows trough our sewer systems, but I believe they don't treat the water that flows through streams and creeks like Cedar and larger ones like Chartiers and small tributaries like the Yough.
http://www.alcosan.org/Portals/0/Wet%20Weather%20Plan/Appendix%20A-2_Newsletters_Chartiers%20Creek%20Basin.pdf
Any GOOD news from the meeting?
7:51
What is the connection between shady municipal projects and silence from PA American...hmm. They do have a spokesperson so I wonder why they havent chimed in on the importance of reducing the amount of carcinogens entering their system.
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