Doby Springs Nature Trail
...the Wild Side
We urge anyone – in fact, we urge everyone to take a trip to Doby Springs Park and check out the Nature Trail.
After viewing a photo and some video on the Buffalo Blog Inside Buffalo drove out on a sunny day and checked it out for ourselves.
Inside Buffalo Magazine received a “tip” from a citizen of Buffalo. We notified the Buffalo Blogger who was first to venture out to Doby and post information on the blog about what’s contained within this article. The Buffalo citizen who had given us the tip had taken a drive out to Doby for a relaxing afternoon with a friend, only to find this mess!
Remember, Doby Springs is the source of Buffalo’s drinking water. This dump is not even 300 feet away from the massive water tank at Doby Springs. This dump is in a ravine where rainwater, runoff and leeching into Buffalo’s water supply has occurred or is imminent. Although in a ravine or drainage area, it’s still higher than where Doby Springs water flows freely and where the well heads are located. Meaning… battery acid, whatever chemicals or solvent residues, previously stored in the 55 gallon drums strewn about the dump site, and other pollutants will, without a doubt, eventually get into the Town’s water supply if they haven’t already.
Old tractors contain oils, fluids and solvents within them which, when aging, release harmful pollutants. Batteries, burst open from old age, spill their acids onto and into the ground. Rainwater carries these toxins either further into the earth or down to the water supply pump sites thereby contaminating our drinking water.
Of all places for this junk to be dumped!
Influential Buffalo hierarchy chose to dump
this junk directly within the only area available to
provide Buffalo with their source of drinking water!
Our woodsy trek led us to a multitude of small, and a couple of large, piles of asbestos/cement pipes, piled high and scattered about an area between well heads.
How much proof do Buffalo residents need? Buffalo’s water is being delivered in asbestos/cement pipes. The grapevine, which appears to have roots in City Hall, says that the pipes supplying water to Buffalo residents are, yes, asbestos - but ON THE OUTSIDE ONLY. Ba-Humbug! Drive out to Doby Springs and take a little walk on the nature trails and check out the pipes for yourselves. There are no liners, no lining, nothing but asbestos and cement carrying your lifeline of water to your home, shower, and faucets.
These pipes have apparently been there for a while because of the vegetation growth around them and the evident degeneration of the rubber seals within the flared ends of the pipes.
What’s the concern? No Big Deal!
“The Detroit News informed 4 million water drinkers that 1100 miles of the pipe that lay beneath them showed more than 3 million fibers in a quart of tap water…. Asbestos cement water pipes may be anywhere in North American, from Winnipeg Canada to Texas, and, depending on its condition may cause people to swallow from a few hundred to hundreds of millions of fibers every day… As thousands of other North Americans become suspicious of what level of asbestos may be in their drinking water, the big question is how to take preventive measures. At the very least, water districts should be required by law to tell consumers what type of pipe transports their precious commodity and before major problems erupt they should be required to test their water. If necessary, districts should be required by law to quickly remove the pipe, just as schools have been required to remove asbestos pipe and insulation/tiles. Failure to do so dooms millions of people to become test animals in a massive biological experiment involving a known carcinogen.”
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To be continued…
