Sat morning april 8th 2017
the rumbling that started at 7am on
wednesday finally stopped around 5pm friday night. It was incredible
to get home from work and hear quiet. It made me hopeful that the
weekend would be a low noise affair. But – this morning by 730am
the rumbling and pulsing noise was back. As were the cement trucks
coming and going. As was the dust in the air.
I have now shared with the snow woods
neighborhood leader the papers i received about the wetlands permits.
About the draining and filling, the new sewer work, the new road to
be built atop where birds used to nest. Hey you know – it's okay –
FORD is now sponsoring twice as much wetland along the clinton river
as what it maintained in the area being drained on campus. About 1.5
acres instead of .7 acres. Oh how nice. Now who is gonna collect all
those birds and squirrels and racoons and possums and foxes and
turtles and explain to them that their new address is 35 miles away
in a city called brighton?
In the past 2 weeks i received papers
on the wetlands draining permit. Part of the process involved
discovering info on an address i was unaware of – the actual street
address for edison park. Somehow the two of them are not related in
real time but you can search each of them seperately and get this
info – edison park is located at the corner of elmdale and
olmstead. 2401 elmdale is a 3 acre piece of land located at elmdale
and olmstead – which zillow thinks is a residential property with no
tax history that has the potential for being sold at some point. The
marker on the map is exactly the same – but the park has no mail
box – no structure = just a sign. Why was mail addressed to go to
the park? It ended up with me. 10 pages of rules and regulations and
mumbo jumbo and plans for the rebuild. Some decent sized sewer eqpt
being installed – gonna be a lot of digging. Still wondering what
was in the dirt undreneath, as i've heard a story about how one time
workers dumped toxic chemicals into the ponds on campus, and only the
blue gills survived. All the frogs and toads and turtles did not.
I am looking forward to the day we can
sell this house and move. It could be 4 months, it could be a year or
more. But the realization of living next to a piece of land filled
with so many chemicals and now so many structures has no appeal. One
day someone else will be happy here – i hope that some day is soon.
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