Environment
On Tuesday October 24, 2006, Brian received the endorsement of Hopewell Junction Citizens For Clean Water. This was the statement issued by Debra Hall, a founder of the organization and concerned resident of the Hopewell Precision Superfund Site:By Debra Hall, Hopewell Junction Citizens for Clean Water
www.Hopewell-Junction-Citizens-for-Clean-Water.org
Hopewell resident, Brian Keeler is running for State Senator against the 26 year Republican incumbent, Steven Saland. When elected, Mr. Keeler will be an effective Senator, representing our interests rather than protecting special interests and corporate contributors.
Every New Yorker should be guaranteed clean, safe, potable water. We need a Senator that will protect this most basic human health issue and Brian Keeler supports mandatory well water testing, “We cannot afford to have a well water policy dependent on people becoming sick before the problem is investigated. The safety of our drinking water should not be optional.”
Twenty-five local and statewide environmental groups wrote to Saland, asking him to support a State wide well water testing bill similar to the bill which passed unanimously in the Assembly. Saland would not, instead, opting for a voluntary testing program. In Saland’s plan only the neighborhoods with contaminated water would require testing.
The rest of the statement and video of the press conference can be found in the extended entry
On April 14, 2006, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported in an article entitled State well-testing bill gets no backing, that "Advocates for a statewide private well testing law failed to find support in the Senate after appealing to Sen. Steve Saland, R-Poughkeepsie". It was further reported that 25 local and statewide environmental groups wrote to Saland, asking him to support a bill authored by Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, D-Long Island. The bill has floundered without a backer in the Senate.
This is an important Human Health issue. Shouldn't every New Yorker be guarenteed safe, potable water? I think its time for clean water and a clean Albany. It's time for a NEW Senate and a NEW New York.
What do you think? I want to know.
And should Steve Saland ever knock on your door, offer him a glass of your tap water.
