Today I voice a position supported by the full MTNA by unanimous vote at our neighborhood meeting last month.
Hypalon-like covers are one of EPA’s approved methods of LT2 compliance. They are cheaper and they make us fully compliant.
At this moment it is Common Sense vs. Over Engineering. It is Preservation vs. New Construction. Always before, in the LT2 conversation you’ve been forced to
align yourselves counter to Portland’s culture. You’ve had to choose Over
Engineering and New Construction when what you’ve wanted was Common Sense and
Preservation.
But not anymore. There is no reason to continue on
with Kelly Butte, or any other part of PWB’s current compliance plan for
LT2. You have a new option, one that’s not been on the table
before. The groups that have opposed this option in the past, support it
today. Business, public health, environmental, equity, and neighborhood
groups are all on board. The groups that oppose your current compliance
plan SUPPORT this plan. Even the groups that have opposed compliance on principle, SUPPORT this
plan.We ask you to reject Water Bureau’s attempts to muddle the conversation at the last minute with untested claims that these structures are unsafe and too old. These are tired arguments, they’ve been addressed before in other forums and we can address them again if the community so desires.
LT2 is a Federal beast that has stripped us of local
power. We dare not mix into our relationship with LT2 any other
project, or we unnecessarily hand over local control of those issues too.
Every other, non-LT2 project should be staged, costs and approach, in a way
that best suits our community without the LT2 gun to our heads.
MTNA supports a change in our compliance plan to
include Hypalon-like covers.
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