tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.comments2024-03-01T11:21:28.582-05:00Data-Driven ViewpointsBrian T. Lynch, MSWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-61878315297126808422024-01-21T09:09:47.219-05:002024-01-21T09:09:47.219-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Brian T. Lynch, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-50654697290416577652024-01-21T08:41:48.865-05:002024-01-21T08:41:48.865-05:00It’s sad to read about beautiful natural areas tha...It’s sad to read about beautiful natural areas that have been polluted. One would hope our government decision makers would do the right thing moving forward but I’m not optimistic. <br />Good job researching and writing about it.<br />Bob Znoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-42287035066437625132024-01-21T08:35:59.216-05:002024-01-21T08:35:59.216-05:00It’s sad when our beautiful natural areas have bee...It’s sad when our beautiful natural areas have been polluted. I hope our government decision makers do the right thing moving forward but I’m not optimistic.<br />You did a good job researching and writing about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-68784137453272748102024-01-19T13:35:54.373-05:002024-01-19T13:35:54.373-05:00You are absolutely correct. You are absolutely correct. Brian T. Lynch, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-82003805764410914762024-01-19T13:11:23.801-05:002024-01-19T13:11:23.801-05:00Wasn’t Duck Pond the site of the old burning groun...Wasn’t Duck Pond the site of the old burning grounds?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-35548439920722287262023-12-16T11:36:16.066-05:002023-12-16T11:36:16.066-05:00Thank you! If you happen to come out for a public ...Thank you! If you happen to come out for a public meeting which is yet to be scheduled, come over and say hello. Brian T. Lynch, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-75648090908051969092023-12-16T07:29:32.728-05:002023-12-16T07:29:32.728-05:00Brian, I read about this in the Neighborhood News ...Brian, I read about this in the Neighborhood News website so I think your efforts have not fallen on deaf ears. I, for one, will go to the website you’ve referenced and educate myself about this issue. The old Hercules site scares me to death. I’m sure cleaning it up will be a major effort and the public needs to be aware of what’s going on behind the scenes. Thanks for your effort about this issue. I would not have known anything was going on if it hadn’t been for you. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-11135434391211377292023-09-20T17:04:29.679-04:002023-09-20T17:04:29.679-04:00Sadly, we are not in control. Elites have an agend...Sadly, we are not in control. Elites have an agenda that includes EUGENICS,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-91566795145616143612023-07-08T09:05:08.793-04:002023-07-08T09:05:08.793-04:00Thank you for the wonderful detailed description o...Thank you for the wonderful detailed description of the trail. I have walked the trail but look forward to following in your footsteps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-21425462714440042272023-06-14T14:37:48.574-04:002023-06-14T14:37:48.574-04:00I am one of the monitors who measures the volume o...I am one of the monitors who measures the volume of water in this stream every June, including last week’s data taken during a significant dry spell. The average water volume over three years = 9.36 cu.ft./sec.<br /><br />9.63 cu.ft./sec <br />X 60 sec./min.<br />X 60 min./hr.<br />X 24 hr./day<br />X 365 days/yr .=<br />295,176,460 cu.ft./year<br />X 7.481 U.S. gallons/cu.ft. =<br />2.208 billion gallons/year<br />Brian T. Lynch, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-25882747980016005702023-06-14T12:33:21.235-04:002023-06-14T12:33:21.235-04:00"It contributes over two-billion gallons of w..."It contributes over two-billion gallons of water a year to the Raritan River" How was this calculated?<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-26519561158728113772023-06-14T08:13:15.925-04:002023-06-14T08:13:15.925-04:00I hope so too. Thanks for your comment.I hope so too. Thanks for your comment.Brian T. Lynch, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-35219263370351081442023-06-13T06:51:33.751-04:002023-06-13T06:51:33.751-04:00Although I’m not a scientist, I read this report a...Although I’m not a scientist, I read this report and came away at least a little optimistic. Hope the good news continues!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-22949237206080003362023-05-26T09:58:33.570-04:002023-05-26T09:58:33.570-04:00From an article: “ Water temperature is an importa...From an article: “ Water temperature is an important physical property of every lake. Many plants, animals, and other organisms flourish only in a specific range of water temperatures. Temperature can also affect certain aspects of water quality. For example, higher temperatures promote the growth of algae and bacteria, but they also reduce levels of dissolved oxygen in the water, which can negatively affect the growth and productivity of other aquatic life.” The NJDEP does have responsibility to monitor stream water temperature changes caused by human activity. It is an important component to safeguard the biota in a watersheds. There are lots of toxins and metals on the Hercules site that can be harmful also, but I lack the background to evaluate how they are addressed in the permit. Brian Lynchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-74588927137854850532023-05-25T17:27:27.569-04:002023-05-25T17:27:27.569-04:00Is the DEP the responsible entity to review temper...Is the DEP the responsible entity to review temperature concerns in these type of permits? If the permit is granted, isn’t the wastewater itself the larger impact/threat to this and potentially other species who need clean water to survive? Mark Mosleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-57226797421944327082022-09-04T10:04:33.666-04:002022-09-04T10:04:33.666-04:00As a former Mine Hill Resident, I think Sunset Lak...As a former Mine Hill Resident, I think Sunset Lake and its little beach that people can go to to have some fun are important to keep as is. Mine Hill has very little to offer people for recreation. The lake is somewhere FAMILIES can go TOGETHER for some fun.....I'm not saying concrete isn't important.....but whatever things can bring families together, and help "CEMENT" their unity, need to be preserved!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-62630830806477045772022-07-04T02:14:03.393-04:002022-07-04T02:14:03.393-04:00
If they are hearing this case in October 2022 th...<br /><br />If they are hearing this case in October 2022 they have to rule on it by June or July of 2023, so upon announcement of that truly illegal decision the rioting would start way before the 2024 election. I find it very hard to believe that even these current 6 would be willing to say the Constitution allows a state legislature to mount a LEGAL voter election and then if they don’t like the outcome simply declare the loser the winner.<br /><br />Yes the U.S. Constitution says legislatures which set up the LEGAL voter elections, BUT the only qualifier in the Constitution for the legislatures to get involved in that LEGAL election after it’s over is if there is what the Constitution calls “a failed election,” likely defined by fraud or some other special circumstance as the Florida legislature was getting ready to declare in 2000 if Gore won. Historically there has been only one truly failed election, the election of 1876 where fraud was proven to have been committed by both parties in several states. Eventually that was resolved by a bipartisan committee being formed to “determine” the President and Vice President.<br /><br />The article leaves out some important things about the 2000 election. The Florida legislature was on the verge of passing a law to create a second slate of electors for Bush if Gore won the recount. The U.S. Supreme Court decided to end the election by declaring there wasn’t enough time to finish counting votes before Safe Harbor, so the legislature never finished voting on the law. The legal rationale for this set of Bush electors was going to be based on a contention that successive decisions by the Florida Supreme Court had thrown the recount into chaos. They actually had some ammunition for this contention in the form of the (liberal) Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. He voted against continuing the recount under the revised counting standards, saying things had gone too far. Prior to that, he had supported the recount. He was outvoted and the recount recommenced. If Gore had won the recount two slates of FL electors would have been sent to the EC, and the House and Senate would have ended up deciding the President and Vice President. Control of the chambers was split by Jan. 6 2001, so if it had been party line votes the House would have chosen Bush as president and the Senate would have voted Lieberman vice president. So in getting ready to send the Bush electors, the FL legislature at least expressed a legal rationale for doing so, and obviously they never just up and declared Bush the winner regardless of the popular vote in the manner described in the article.<br />mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699016832688883403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-89624160875948106942022-04-08T11:17:28.398-04:002022-04-08T11:17:28.398-04:00Converting from fossil fuels to wind and solar wil...Converting from fossil fuels to wind and solar will greatly reduce the cost of electricity, from everything I've read so far. You may have contradicting information(send me a link). Brian T. Lynch, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-91587625774859220062022-04-08T11:13:18.244-04:002022-04-08T11:13:18.244-04:00There is a link in the above article detailing a p...There is a link in the above article detailing a process called bioremediation for chemical toxins at TNT manufacturing "sites.microbially" composted. Click on the link for details. Also, feel free to click on all the links in the article. They may be of interest. Brian T. Lynch, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-49433976006302883192022-03-28T09:43:14.999-04:002022-03-28T09:43:14.999-04:00"The system isn't broken, it was built th..."The system isn't broken, it was built this way." Poverty makes some people very rich... yet the poor stay constant.LThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-36539600184847857412022-03-28T09:41:44.918-04:002022-03-28T09:41:44.918-04:00How do they clean up toxic waste other than to mov...How do they clean up toxic waste other than to move it to another site?LThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-15099806864044864352022-02-25T11:19:29.831-05:002022-02-25T11:19:29.831-05:00Practice what you preach. Do your research quote v...Practice what you preach. Do your research quote vId documents before you make serious accusations because you will end up being the fool<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10401031177036554551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-53340775210138171022021-07-09T12:33:41.043-04:002021-07-09T12:33:41.043-04:00Thank you for responding, “bobdid.” You are correc...Thank you for responding, “bobdid.” You are correct, of course. Human overpopulation is the predicate (the multiplier, as you put it) to almost all of the looming environmental disasters we face. Human intelligence, coupled with our massively interdependent and complex social structures has allowed us to inhabit and thrive in nearly every corner of our planet’s biosphere. We do this by exploiting and extracting every local resource essential for the web of life in the areas we colonize. In this sense, the observation of the machine intelligence portrayed in the movie The Matrix seems appropriate. Our species sudden appearance in the natural order models that of a novel parasite that quickly overwhelms its host. In the blink of an eye, geologically speaking, we have already destablized the entire global ecosystem. It is as if we are at war with the biosphere into which we came. We must be at one with our home planet. We will never have the last word if we don’t reform ourselves. We have the power to become self-sustaining partners of all living things if we choose, but this requires seven billion conversions to a new way of living. Where do we begin?Brian T. Lynch, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-48897672619442052862021-07-09T02:54:03.564-04:002021-07-09T02:54:03.564-04:00If you consider all of the challenges to the futur...If you consider all of the challenges to the future of human civilization there is a common multiplier -- human population. The carbon footprint of a nation, the world, is the sum of all the individual human footprints. So too for water usage, whether it's the acreage of lawns to be watered, or the extent of macadam application so the population can easily get to wherever it wants to be for a time. It's the elephant in the room the no one wants to acknowledge. Did Mao have something right? There were unanticipated negative consequences of his one child mandate, but where would China be had its unfettered population explosion continued unabated? Where would the world be? There are just too many f&*^in people alive for sustainability of our population. Water accessibility and distribution is but one of the many manifestations of the population dilemma. Maybe it's time to look at the cause, not just the effect.<br />bobdidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01857909420636589741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648025887105945618.post-73264379881284562572021-04-08T11:18:36.503-04:002021-04-08T11:18:36.503-04:00Thank you, Patricia! Your response and the insight...Thank you, Patricia! Your response and the insights you expressed have renewed my hope. It has been a struggle to give expression to all the many ways that civil discourse has come under attack by malevolent forces in our media rich environment. What you have written here contributes to a dialogue that could eventually elevate public awareness and inoculate our people against the big lies being thrust upon us every day. Anything that you can do to open this dialogue with others is itself a public service. Best Regards - BrianBrian T. Lynch, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639147301063129077noreply@blogger.com