Legoland: Dougie Doubles Back or A Royle Rogering

Dear Nieces and Nephews

Last week, the list of multiple, ongoing environmental offenses committed by Merlin Entertainments at Legoland, Goshen NY ,  rose to a new level. The onslaught of mud and runoff was so bad, (as noted by a team member who witnessed it) that the polluted mud covered Route 17 as if it were lava covering a highway in Hawaii. 

Is this a new attraction, the Legoland Mudslide?!!!

Legoland’s latest troubles follow two state DEC consent decrees, in September and April, seeking to compel fixes by the amusement park’s U.K. parent Merlin Entertainments, general contractor Holt Construction, of Pearl River, and principal engineer Lanc & Tully, of Campbell Hall.

Both consent decree agreements between the state and Legoland called for stabilizing the disturbed soil contributing to erosion and creating a better erosion control plan for the park, which Town of Goshen officials say will open in June 2020.

Yet, construction site mud has continually turned the Otter Kill, and its connecting waterways, a chocolate-milk color. And, even after the second consent decree, the DEC has cited the park, including on May 8 for an April 29 runoff incident. *

Representatives from Legoland said:

In September, Phil Royle, Legoland’s New York operations director, said that one runoff-prevention challenge has been running a so-called “balanced site.”*

In April, Besterman also blamed the runoff issues on “74.3 inches of rainfall in Goshen — nearly 30 inches above average” during 2018. Goshen’s Planning Board recently relaxed its soil trucking restrictions.*

 

WAH WAH WAH!!! It’s the town’s fault demanding a balanced site, WAH it’s the rain!!!

No, dear Legoheads, it’s the strip mining technique you are using.

You are not digging for coal, you are supposed to be building a theme park.

A wide body of scientific research has linked construction site runoff to the death of fish, insects and plants in streams and their surrounding ecosystems.

*https://www.recordonline.com/news/20190619/goshen-shuts-down-legoland-construction-site 

And so ,trout spawning and other waterways are at extreme risk, eventually having an effect on the HUDSON RIVER!!!

DOUGIE SAID:

Last week

Town of Goshen Supervisor Douglas Bloomfield said working with Legoland has been a positive experience.

"They’re doing well," he said. “They’ve been in the business, and they have a lot of experience."

http://www.chroniclenewspaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20190612/NEWS01/190619979 

This week

“We’ve tried to be patient, we’ve worked with the state DEC, and we’ve issued stop orders” on construction at the Legoland site due to runoff in the past, Bloomfield said. “The purpose of the (current) stop-work order is for Legoland to stop doing what they’re doing until they can focus on repairing things.”

https://www.recordonline.com/news/20190619/goshen-shuts-down-legoland-construction-site 

And throughout this process, where has the Supervisor of the Town of Goshen been? Worried about love, we venture to guess.

DOUG SAID “This is the biggest event in the Town of Goshen since 1843, when the Erie Railroad came,That was wonderful for business, and this is just as great.”

Bloomfield marveled at the Berliners telling employees that they’re “loved.”

“I worked my way up to the management of a Fortune 500 company,” Bloomfield said of his time as a DuPont chemical executive, “and no one ever told me they ‘loved’ me. I just want to say to Andy and Rachel, ‘I love you, too.’”

https://www.recordonline.com/news/20190621/amys-kitchen-factory-breaks-ground-in-goshen 

Sorry, Doug, when you are a high level manager of a company that makes products like AGENT ORANGE, you don’t get too much love on the job. And when one thinks about it, getting your education on company environmental compliance from DuPont Chemical, may explain why you are so “Gung-Ho” on Legoland, despite the MULTIPLE, REPETITIVE, ENVIRONMENTAL INFRACTIONS!!!

     THR 2-09-17