I found this surprise (Adobe file online) from a former employer, who had me come down in the middle of the day to fill out a form at 1 Penn Plaza (or was it 2?) URS on the day the Yankees had a pennant parade in Manhattan. They did some testing around Co-op City, which has been replaced by a better impact in a to-be-developed "Greenway" along the Hutchinson River edge just a couple of hundred or so feet over, for the steam and power tunnel conduit upgrades.
Funny thing is, the earlier research was done by me for TAMS at mid-town now Earth Tech a division of that newspaper selling conglomerate TYCO, in the news all the time it seems for CEO's spending too much on parties in Sardinia, $4000 showerhead, etc. They called me down too in the middle of the day, while President Bush was visiting St. Patricks Cathedral, where my bus stops for their offices then nearby to pick up the maps to go to Peebles Island on a "raid" to get all the CRM site reports ever done for that section of the Hudson River. Greenhouse Consultants Inc. back in 1983 or so "won" a proposal war to do the job at "Fort Edward" for the containment in clay for eternity of the PCB's to be dredged "real soon now". Grossman & Associates, another former employer, dug at Little Wood Creek in Fort Edward, NY (the largest site excavated in the region) and is mentioned in the document. He went to work on it after leaving Greenhouse Consultants, signing a non-competitive agreement to get out of Mr. Greenhouse's prior contract I guess he had signed. Funny too, it seems vice versa occurred.
Si, here it is. I read the TAMS one, which ironically had no cultural resources in it and GE suggested that it should be included! That was, TAMS built dams and their first report was about the proposed construction not the impacts, which the public was given only 30 days to comment on. I got a prerecorded message to write about it from some of the Hudson River environmental groups, (Clearwater, etc. I worked a summer on water quality with NYPIRG and we had Pete Seegar sing us a concert at the end of the canvassing in Riverhead, NY still trying to preserve that arts venue an old theater in the middle of its town) and I think it was successful, the public got a little more time to read the like I imagine 6" thick document judging how large it was online.
This report also refers to a lot of information I would not have been able to get a handle on for current research in the upper Hudson valley. There is also a "district" in Warrensburg, birthplace of aviator and Arctic explorer Floyd Bennett (the large airport in Brooklyn named after him now part of Gateway National Park stretching from there across to Staten Island where I worked for Panamerican Consultants on part of it to Sandy Hook and the seashore of New Jersey) that is in the National Register listing at NY's SHPO online that is very detailed about settlement, though I'm not sure how important it is. I read settled by loggers from the north in 1790's (not from Lake George, etc.) maybe like around Fort Drum, NY the "North Woods" quasi-settled by French, what would be today Canadians. That would certainly be true for some of the Adirondacks too, perhaps. There is a movement, "A to A" from Algonquin Provincial Park to Adirondack Park to preserve the wildlife and beauty on both sides of the St. Lawrence River where Greenhouse has also had me work, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Ogdensburg, etc.
There's a severe "flood watch" weather alert for northern NY today, which has very few actual dam inspectors, cut back at the state level.
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