Funds sought to buy wetland

BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected]

March 5, 2007

 

MOUNT WASHINGTON – A group of Mount Washington residents is about $20,000 short of succeeding in its effort to spare four acres of rare, wooded wetland from development in their neighborhood.

 

The group, the Mount Washington Wetlands Preservation Trust, has asked Cincinnati officials to chip in the $20,000 needed to secure a $136,000 state grant so that the Hillside Trust can purchase the wetland area, which abuts the yards of 17 homes and a condominium in a subdivision between Beechmont Avenue and Corbly Street.

 

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070305/NEWS01/303050034

Its depressing that we have become a country of lawyers, lobbyists and politicos. Of the millions of dollars going thru Washington to pay lobbyists and PAC's and all that crap, just a drop could make this dream come true. So could the Sierra Club, or some other PAC step in and give a donation?

HEY...that is far too logical!  Now go back to your corner and do not spread those radical ideas around anymore than what they already have.

Here is a follow-up story...

 

Residents close to saving wetland

Mount Washington group seeks city's help in purchase

BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected]

March 6, 2007

 

MOUNT WASHINGTON - A group of Mount Washington residents is about $20,000 short of succeeding in its effort to spare 4 acres of rare wooded wetland from development in their neighborhood.

 

The group, the Mount Washington Wetlands Preservation Trust, has asked Cincinnati officials to chip in $20,000 needed to help secure a state grant of nearly $140,000 so that the Hillside Trust can purchase the wetland area, which abuts the yards of 17 homes and a condominium in a residential area between Beechmont Avenue and Corbly Street.

 

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS01/703060413/1056/COL02

Wetlands purchase nearly done

BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected]

April 3, 2007

 

MOUNT WASHINGTON – The effort of a group of Mount Washington residents to preserve a four-acre wetland could come to a successful conclusion in about two weeks.

 

A $20,000 grant from Cincinnati’s Stormwater Management Utility – along with $38,000 previously raised by the group and a $140,000 state grant – will enable the Hillside Trust to purchase the property this spring and begin restoring it.

 

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070403/NEWS01/304030034

Maybe I'm just too cynical but this sounds like somebody caved in to some neighborhood NIMBYism...I mean surely all this money could have been put to a more productive use that would have a broader economic/environmental benefit.  This story sounds all too familiar..developer buys land threatens to develop it...residents circle the wagons ask govt to do something...oh well at least the developer knew what they were doing and made a decent profit. :clap:

Mt. Washington wetland saved

BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected]

April 30, 2007

 

MOUNT WASHINGTON – A four-acre wooded wetland area that a group of Mount Washington residents have worked for more than a year to save from development is now in the hands of an organization dedicated to its preservation.

 

The Hillside Trust, a nonprofit organization that works to protect the region’s hillsides, closed Monday afternoon on a deal to buy the wetland site for $165,000 from Black Hawk Land Development LLC of Blue Ash.

 

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New rules for wetlands sought

May 15, 2007 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

DAYTON - State environmental regulators want more detailed rules for replacing wetlands because they say few developers successfully recreate habitats where displaced plants and animals can thrive.

 

"We're not getting the quality back that we have lost," said Mick Micacchion, a wetland ecologist with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

 

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