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	<title>BEAT&#039;s Blog &#187; Pittsfield City Government</title>
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		<title>Dumping snow in the river &#8211; again.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/02/14/dumping-snow-in-housatonic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February 2 issue of our newsletter, The BEAT News, carried the following story. Busted for dumping snow in Merrimack River Tuesday February 1, 2011 LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) &#8212; An investigation has been launched after surveillance video caught a contractor allegedly dumping snow plowed from a parking lot into the Merrimack River in Lawrence. Mayor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who consented to this decree?</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/02/13/who-consented-to-this-decree/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2011/02/13/who-consented-to-this-decree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consent Decree &#8211; everyone knows what it is, and nobody has anything good to say about it.  This is the legal agreement made in 2000 by which the cleanup of PCBs in and around the Housatonic River is conducted.  The participants in the agreement were:  the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), General Electric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dumping On The River</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/12/01/dumping-on-the-river/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/12/01/dumping-on-the-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wahconah Park]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the story of the &#8220;green goo&#8221; going into the Housatonic River (1,2). iBerkshires has an update on their webpage today. The City of Pittsfield has been fined $6,325 by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for sending 4,700 gallons of a solution used to clean boilers at Pittsfield High School into a floor drain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsfield: Above the Law</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/27/pittsfield-above-the-law/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/27/pittsfield-above-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about a Pittsfield official telling the City Council that the City of Pittsfield had &#8220;elected&#8221; not to comply with state-mandated environmental monitoring regulations in an effort to save money.  In case you think this is an isolated incident, let me tell you about a few things that happened over the course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Could Possibly Go Wrong?</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/20/what-could-possibly-go-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/20/what-could-possibly-go-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that people, whether in an office in Pittsfield or on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, always think they understand public safety issues better than the regulators. Recently, Bruce Collingwood, Pittsfield&#8217;s Commissioner of Public Works and Utilities, stood before the city council during budget hearings to discuss the mayor&#8217;s new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I love baseball too, but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/30/temp-title/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/30/temp-title/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deming Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Pittsfield Gazette story highlighted the controversy surrounding flooding in the area around Deming Park in Pittsfield. Local residents are angry over mistakes made by the Pittsfield Parks Commission and the Pittsfield Conservation Commission. A second, seemingly unrelated story has me concerned. According to the Gazette, &#8220;Ontario Street homeowners led by Dan Miraglia have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsfield:  We don&#8217;t make the floods; we make them worse.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/29/pittsfield-we-dont-make-the-floods-we-make-them-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/29/pittsfield-we-dont-make-the-floods-we-make-them-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pittsfield has suffered from an unusual amount of flooding over the course of the past year. Of course nobody is blaming the City for the recent heavy rainfall. But the kind of extreme storms we have been experiencing lately may become more common in the future. Global climate-change models have been saying for years now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Tax Dollars At Work</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/22/your-tax-dollars-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/22/your-tax-dollars-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guess what! You know that nice, new grassy area that the City was in such a hurry to put in at Wahconah Park, just outside the stadium? The work that BEAT complained was being done against existing environmental regulations? That grassy area is going to be torn up soon by the City. It seems a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Build A Water Theme Park</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/16/how-to-build-a-water-theme-park/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/16/how-to-build-a-water-theme-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following BEAT&#8217;s Blog, you know that we have a few themes. 1. All BEAT asks is that the City of Pittsfield follow existing laws and regulations. 2. The Pittsfield Conservation Commission does a poor job of protecting Pittsfield&#8217;s lakes, rivers, streams, and other wetlands. 3. The purpose of Pittsfield City Government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsfield: Venice of the Berkshires</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/03/pittsfield-venice-of-the-berkshires/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/03/pittsfield-venice-of-the-berkshires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To say Wahconah Park was flooded last week would be an understatement. People were actually kayaking and swimming in the parking lot. I guess even pumping the overflow into nearby wetlands (which the City of Pittsfield has done) couldn&#8217;t help. Of course, it wasn&#8217;t just Wahconah Park that was flooded. Pittsfield is seeing an unprecedented [...]]]></description>
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