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Coalition to Save the Lakes
We have formed a Coalition to save the lakes and to clean up the entire Carmen River system. We want to research and explore any and all options to clean up our lakes and to fight the removal of the dams at the upper and the lower lakes.
We have several options available to us .We have dredging, harvesting, chemical, drawdown and covering the lakes in areas to block out the light thus killing off the weeds. The final solution may be one or all of these options.
As you may or may not know, there is an effort under way to remove the dams at the upper and lower lakes. In recent weeks over a thousand people have signed a petition, people who want to save the dams and preserve the lakes the way they are. These same people want the lakes cleaned up and restored to their natural beauty.
The groups who are taking the lead in the effort to remove the dams are the Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited along with The Environmental Defense Fund.
They are going to build fish ladders at the South Haven County Park dam. Why can’t they also build these same fish ladders at the upper and lower lake dams?
Trout Unlimited claims to be an environmental group. To us they are only an environmental group when it suits their needs.
We are very disappointed in the Nature Conservancy that they would support a group that has its own agenda. We always thought that the Nature Conservancy was a group that conserves the environment not a group that wants to create an environment.
The Town of Brookhaven owns the river bottom and they must take the lead in cleaning up our lakes.
The people of Yaphank want our lakes back. We want the lakes cleaned up and restored to their natural beauty.
Robert Kessler