Ok...........so the LL park will be ready 'when'? Did anyone actually answer that question?

dont panic, just get out the vote for us one mo' time (then again, then one mo' time after that)

cOME ON RESIDENTS....STEP UP TO THE PLATE.....LET'S NOT DEPEND ON THESE POLITICIANS TO MAKE THINGS CORRECT.....OR LARNED (E I O ) FOR THAT

MATTER
....HE COULD SOLVE THIS AND DO THE RIGHT THING ALL BY HIMSELF.......

Behind the old Campbell Plastics is a pretty good sized creek that goes under the old railroad tracks and discharges behind the apartments next to the water plant. There is a lot of swamp land back there. Google maps shows the path of the water.

For those who don't remember, Dickershaid's pit was excavated and the sand was used to build 890 back in the 60's.

The pit area itself is very flat already, surrounded on two sides by steep embankments of well over 50 ft.

what I meant...he has enuf money to put the ball park anywhere in this Town...that would be a work in the right direction....

and do it himself.....in a decent location......

Quoted from Libertarian4life

For those who don't remember, Dickershaid's pit was excavated and the sand was used to build 890 back in the 60's.

The pit area itself is very flat already, surrounded on two sides by steep embankments of well over 50 ft.

lets not forget the town SH!THOLE

Quoted from SueM2342

lets not forget the town SH!THOLE

Doesn't the water treatment plant on West Campbell Rd use the water from the creek that runs next ti it?

That creek comes from behind the Bluejay tavern on Broadway and is street water runoff for Broadway, Vischer ave, Draper Ave and the area around the Bluejay. It all empties behind Olean st and runs under Vienna St continuing behind the old brick furniture and under the railroad tracks exiting into the area of the water treatment plant.

If you travel down 14th st and don't stop at Olean St, back in the woods is a giant concrete Dyle that used to hold the water back and the area between Olean St and Edgewood ave was a giant 30 acre pond. The dyke was blown up years ago and the water was allowed to flow freely down to Campbell rd. The pond was spring fed from groundwater behind the Bluejay tavern and contnues to flow today.

Years ago there were ice houses along the pond and they harvest ice for people's ice boxes.

Now the street sewers dump into this creek and join the water traveling down to Campbell Rd.

When we were kids back in the 60s, we used to crawl up the sewer discharge pipes and travel all the way up to Broadway.

On Broadway you could look out of the sewers on the side of the road or raise manhole covers in the street. Under the sidewalk from Del Gros down to Capri imports the was a massive underground room bigger than a CDTA bus. You could see the branch lines that traveled up Vischer, Draper and also down Broadway heading North. The main sewer tubes were about 4 ft in diameter so you had to walk bent over. It was pretty cool tarveling around the neighborhood underground.

Today you would be captured, turned over to homeland secrewity and then put on the terror watchlist and imprisoned.

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

Today you would be captured, turned over to homeland secrewity and then put on the terror watchlist and imprisoned.

I remember seeing people walking by the sewers on Broadway and we would yell Help, Help and when they looked into the sewers we would hide. The giant room under Broadway had lighting in it.

That stream actually starts in Colonial Manor area, runs along side the Quick Pix, the whole length of Sunrise Blvd, thru Memorial Park, under the little league major field, and dumps into the stream that runs down by Bj's warehouse and eventually into the Mohawk. It was an open stream when I was a kid catching frogs in it on Floral Ave and went into a culvert from Curry Rd to Bway and then was an open stream all the way to BJ's.

Quoted from Shadow

That stream actually starts in Colonial Manor area, runs along side the Quick Pix, the whole length of Sunrise Blvd, thru Memorial Park, under the little league major field, and dumps into the stream that runs down by Bj's warehouse and eventually into the Mohawk. It was an open stream when I was a kid catching frogs in it on Floral Ave and went into a culvert from Curry Rd to Bway and then was an open stream all the way to BJ's.

It also ran beneath the old town landfill across from the Mobil at Burdeck st.(the landfill was later known as the BMX track) It enters the other stream by BJ's and that is where they found the fish with both eyes on one side of it's head when it was rerouted to build the Mall.

The stream next to BJ's originates way up behind Tippicanoe where it resembles more of a giant spring fed pond. I have traveled the full length of all of these streams as a kid, including through the tunnel under Vienna st. Vienna st is the single block that connects myrtle ave to 15th st.

The only reason I even mentioned the stream, was someone referred to the water treatment plant as the sh!thole. I don't think that these streams contain household human waste at all.  Just spring fed streams and street sewer runoff.

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Little league fields stalled
Rotterdam baseball club upset about delay, coffers dwindling away
By John Purcell As of Friday, June 22, 2012 -3:27 p.m.
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#ROTTERDAM — A youth baseball league is hoping a deal to secure new fields doesn’t strike out.

#Rotterdam Little League officials are concerned players will be benched next season after an agreement to build new fields has languished amidst developer negotiations with the town over where to place sewage infrastructure.

#An approved plan to build a 248-unit apartment complex is moving the Little League from its temporary home on North Thompson Street. Developer Timothy Larned agreed to sell the county 8.7 acres of land off Burdeck Street to use as parkland that will serve as a permanent home for the league, but the sale has hinged on Larned receiving a building permit for the unrelated apartments.

#The County Legislature in March 2010 approved purchasing the parcel for $260,000, tapping funds designated for expanding and improving parks. County Attorney Christopher Gardner said Larned wouldn’t sign off on the sale until the apartment complex proceeds.

#“I believe in the next day or two all those issues will be resolved,” Gardner said on Tuesday, June 19.

#Larned allowed the league to continue using its current fields for the 2012 season, which concluded on Friday, June 15.

#Once the sale is final, the league will lease the land from the county and primarily be responsible for constructing the new fields, Gardner said, with the county assisting “however it can” within its “budgetary constraints.”

#The league has other, issues, however. At the start of this year’s season, power was to the league’s concession stands was cut off in April as demolition work began on the old Rotterdam Republican Club, through which power was previously fed.

#League President Matthew Rash said the powerless concession stands yielded only a fraction of the previous year’s profit, amounting to a 90 percent loss of revenue, or roughly $25,000.

#“This constitutes a major portion of the money used to fund the league,” Rash said. “We could not be in a worse scenario moving forward to the 2013 season.”

Rash pleaded to the Rotterdam Town Board for help during its meeting on Wednesday, June 13, asking town officials to do whatever they can to move forward efforts to open the new fields.

#“We are here today to beg for help for our league’s future,” he said. “Failure to initiate the construction quickly on the new fields will destroy Rotterdam Little League and have a ripple effect on the Babe Ruth programs, as we are a feeder program for that league.”

#There are more than 300 youth participating in the league, stretching from T-ball to majors, according to Rash, and he is hoping the new fields can be prepared in time for the upcoming season.

#“A new home has been found for the league, but it is just out of reach,” Rash said. “This is a hard pill to swallow for the families of the youth that participate in the league and desperately want the tradition to continue.”

#Grass seed would need to be placed by this fall to ensure the fields are ready for the season, Rash said.

#Rotterdam resident Peg Raymond, a mother of two children playing in the league, also implored the board for a speedy resolution.

#“You all could be a part of making history for the town,” Raymond said.

#She said her 8-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter are looking forward to playing for years to come.

#Town Supervisor Harry Buffardi said the town doesn’t want to impede the league and is working towards opening the fields for next season. Buffardi blamed politics for stalling the project.

#Buffardi said after entering office this year he was informed Larned wouldn’t be paying parkland fees associated with developing the site, which is required of any site developed in the town.

#“I was told that there was a handshake agreement that allowed the principals of this site not to pay the parkland fees,” he said.

The associated fees totaled around $124,000, according to Buffardi, which he said would have to be made up by other taxpayers.

#“I quite frankly did not buy into that deal,” he said. “I kind of thought that might nix the deal. It did not, negotiations continued on.”

#The original plan called for a sewage pump station for the apartment project to be built at the site of the current fields. This would pump sewage downhill and the developer would maintain the site. Buffardi said sewage pumping is needed because the project isn’t eligible for a septic tank.

#Developers now want to move the pump station off the property and onto town-owned land, which the town would maintain. If this was pursued, the project would go back before the town Planning Commission.

#Buffardi said he talked to some planning members and they were “not real favorable” to having the pump station at the bottom of a hill and publicly owned.

#Richard Larmour, a Schenectady resident, said for decades the Little League has used donated land, but for the past five years the organization knew it was going to lose the area.

#Larmour also said other local baseball complexes wouldn’t be able to house the league.

#“The Woestina fields, the complex isn’t large enough for what needs to be done,” he said. “The Carman complex is also not large enough to incorporate adding Rotterdam Little League with it … it wouldn’t work out.”

#In October 2010, County officials said the site plan for the new facility includes three baseball fields, a pair of dugouts and bleachers for each field, a central concession and restroom building, a plaza area with some landscaping and a parking lot with 120 spaces.

#Buffardi remained confident a deal could be reached.

#“I see no reason to panic at this point,” he said. “I hope that gives some assurance.”

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OK, 1 month to grow grass assuming it is planted today!  Panic at this point, yes??  

Anything planted in the next three weeks or so will be sensational next year so don't panic

If it's not an election year for these dimwits........you will hear nothing but crickets!!!!

Historically Little League parks are used for political fodder ONLY!!!

ROTTENdam is only interested in who Larned hires for his PRIVATE business!!! PATHETIC!!!

Another sh!thole in the making!

Quoted from bumblethru

If it's not an election year for these dimwits........you will hear nothing but crickets!!!!

Historically Little League parks are used for political fodder ONLY!!!

ROTTENdam is only interested in who Larned hires for his PRIVATE business!!! PATHETIC!!!

Another sh!thole in the making!

When the county and town seats are on the line you can be sure they will have several press releases and news stories from the gazette saying how great it is. So wait at least another year and maybe three because if they can get TWO more elections out of it then it certainly will be to the benefit of the copservative party and dimocraps