To the Editor: 

Flooding increased by impermeable surfaces will increase volume and velocity — all of it very damaging. The Times is constantly inundated. One would think The Times, the local paper, and in the direct path of the flooding, would investigate mitigation, including permeable surfaces, and studies indicating how greatly the proposed SUP plan will add to the problem. 

Sidewalks can be made permeable. Miami is doing it. So can an SUP. 

The SUP is beyond dangerous. It is criminal. The funds were raised based on a lie — it is not protected. 

The utility pole move is dangerous. They will block the view of drivers entering and leaving certain locations — one of them is ours. Of course I am opposed. 

 

Frank and Vasha Brunelle
Vineyard Haven

4 replies on “Make sidewalks permeable”

    1. It is always healthy to hear different opinions. Of course, concrete is not the only solution. That being said we do not know what the freeze tolerance is for the product and it has been decades since we have had significant freezing – so I wonder if it even applies. On this date in 1933 it was 6 degrees here. Today it is 50 degrees and drizzling. I looked up one article on the alternatives. This is a problem to be solved, not rejected out of hand. It is critical.

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  2. Why are some letters to the Editor open to online comments, but others are not? You published that under your new guidelines, no one would be allowed to comment on your published letters but one could respond to them by writing a letter to the Editor to be published.

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