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Small town pins water woes on road salt – Sports – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News – Sault Ste. Marie, MI – Sault Ste. Marie, MI

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Small town pins water woes on road salt – Sports – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News – Sault Ste. Marie, MI – Sault Ste. Marie, MI

FISHERS LANDING, NEW YORK — Road salt normally helps keep the public safe. But in this small hamlet near the Canadian border, residents say it’s contaminating their wells and eating their appliances from the inside out. Worse, they believe the state misled them about the cause to avoid culpability.

Researchers from Virginia Tech, who helped uncover drinking water contamination in Flint, Michigan, think Fishers Landing’s problems were caused by runoff from a nearby salt storage shed run by the New York State Department of Transportation.

They also say the problem could be far more widespread than a single shed in a single town, with their analysis showing nearly half a million people across the state could face similar risks.

And while New York uses more road salt than any other state, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont use similar amounts of salt per mile of roadway, meaning residents there could be at risk, too.

Unlike public water systems, private wells aren’t regulated, said Kelsey Pieper, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Boston’s Northeastern University who studied the Fishers Landing area while at Virginia Tech beginning in late 2015.

"Worse, they believe the state misled them about the cause to avoid culpability." Our government would do such a thing?

Those ass-backwards highway naming conventions

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Those ass-backwards highway naming conventions … 🚗

The NY 9-suffixes violate the naming convention that New York uses for most state highways — east west highways are odd numbers like NY 5 or NY 7, while north-south highways are even numbers like NY 8, NY 10, NY 22, etc.

The US highways use the opposite system that New York uses, because our state is ass backwards at least when it comes to numbering highways. Virtually every other state uses the federal convention, not the New York convention for numbering highways.

US 2 and US 20 is are east-west highway, while US 9 and US 11 is a north-south highway. Interstate 90 is east-west while Interstate 87 is North South.

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It’s 2020. What are the chances that New York Interstate 99 will connect to Pennsylvania Interstate 99 within the decade?

It could happen if they complete the Interstate 99 and Interstate 80 interchange outside State College which has been bid out. But they’d also have to sign interstate 180 to Williamsport as Interstate 99 and that’s rather out of the way.

I think the official plan is close the 12 mile gap between Jerseyshore and Williamsport but making that section limited access will be fairly expensive due to the many houses along it and the number of cross roads. Indeed, I think the capital plan calls for safety upgrades to US 220 which wouldn’t bring it up to the Interstate standards. They would have to also complete the Lockhaven interstate 80 and US 220 interchange but that’s probably a few million as it’s partially built. But there is nothing in the PennDOT capital plan for either purpose.

I really like driving Interstate 99 because except for Altona it’s very light on traffic. But it’s confusing as there aren’t many signs along it to direct motorists from New York Interstate 99 and Pennsylvania Interstate 99. And that gap between Jersey Shore and Williamsport is a lot like driving New Jersey 17 minus the traffic and much more rural.

I guess a lot depends on how much Appalachian Regional Commission funding they can shake loose.

Isle of Wight model triceratops left in middle of high street – BBC News

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Isle of Wight model triceratops left in middle of high street – BBC News

A 25ft (7.6m) model triceratops had to be removed from High Street in Godshill on the Isle of Wight after it was dragged from the Jurassic Garden.

Owner Martin Simpson said he was shocked to see the model appearing on social media over the weekend.

The dinosaur is part of Mr Simpson's shop garden, where he sells prehistoric gems and fossils.