Partnership for Onondaga Creek

It's Great to Feel Appreciated!

Last week, a group of business owners from the Armory Square district held a celebration party for the Partnership. The event was held in the Community Gardens on Midland Avenue , just a few feet from Onondaga Creek.

These folks appreciate that even after the Midland Avenue sewage treatment plant was built on the Southside, the Partnership for Onondaga Creek and our allies, were persistent in our efforts to halt the building of the Clinton RTF. That sewage plant had been slated to go in the Armory Square trolley lot.

David Church, Karin Vladimer, and James Horan took the lead in this endeavor, with the support of many other businesses wishing to express their gratitude.

Thank you all!

For more pics, click on PHOTOS, and go to the Webshots Album.

To see the Powerpoint presentationof Southside Pipeling Alternatives click here

For more on Green Infrastructure:

http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/rooftops/contents.asp

http://www.portlandonline.com/bes/index.cfm?c=44463

http://home.comcast.net/~leavesdance/rainbarrels/calculator.html

http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=298

Click here for an alternative!

Read more about the increasing costs of the Midland RTF and pipeline on the Midland page.

Click here for a list of your legislative contacts.

This is Onondaga Creek

Both pictures were taken on the same day, by the same photographer, in the same canoe, under the Midland Avenue bridge.

>The top picture shows the Midland Avenue sewage plant (on the right) and the impact this construction has had on the creek.

The bottom shows the creek, as it looks immediately upstream.

Our thanks to by Rob Griffiths of the Onondaga Environmental Institute for these photographs. For more pictures of Onondaga Creek and the Partnership, go to Photos and visit our Webshots page.

Environmental INjustice continues in Syracuse and around the country. Help us make Midland the place to remember for social justice. Help us continue our work to stop this and future environmental injustices. Help us create a community of awareness at Midland and throughout the Syracuse neighborhoods.

The Partnership for Onondaga Creek is a diverse, community-based organization, rooted in the Midland area of Syracuse, New York.

To find out what you can do, check the action page!

We are committed to empowering local communities, through knowledge and tools for change, to make the water and environment in and along Onondaga Creek meet the highest standards.