Once again, this past weekend the intersection of Dick Road/Cayuga and Genesee Street became a pond of Ethylene Glycol when the holding ponds over filled as did the storm sewers with surface water. Ethylene Glycol filled the intersection with the "rotten egg" smelling toxic deicer. It is too bad it was the weekend and all response teams were home.
Big storms are a great time for the NFTA to increase the amount of the toxic chemical it is allowed to disperse through the Buffalo Sewer system. Who would know? Yet Hoyt Lake remains dead as does the Scajaquada Creek bottom behind the Buffalo Historical Society.
It is my understanding that the Town of Cheektowaga has started to clamp down on them, as well they should. Too little to late as the areas number 1 polluter continues to pollute because of its Authority status.
We spend billions of dollars on all sorts of protection under the guise of “if it just saves one life". Yet this Public Authority is allowed to kill people in the name of commerce spoiling the environment and water shed.
Western New York is the capital of Multiple Sclerosis and numerous cancers that may be related to our drinking water.
Any questions you have of the NFTA will be first directed to Airport Director William Vanecek who will then direct you to authority appointee Thomas Dames, a former Marine Corp pilot hired especially to thwart any investigation into the Airport deicing process. He has been televised on the “Weather Station" (channel 49) as the "Deicing" specialist at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
Don't expect to get the real story from him. His job depends on how well and how long he can fool you. He will show you all the new solutions the NFTA is involved in. They have permits for everything they do. Who watches thereafter?
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