PRESS RELEASE
MYTH PROMULAGATED BY SUPERVISOR HEANEY AND DEVELOPER ROBERT RUBIN DEBUNKED
Sept 6, 2002
The Bridge golf course used more fertilizers and pesticides in 2001 than their 1996 Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) had projected.
In a review of the golf course Superintendent's Report for the year 2001 we have found that the "2001 Fertilizer Applications" totaled to 52,260 lbs. and that the "pesticides used" amounted to 1774.25 lbs and 647.83 gallons worth of pesticide products.
According to a matrix in the 1996 FEIS that broke down the amounts of fertilizer and pesticide use according to different subdivison scenarios, such as, 2 golf courses and 40 homes; 114 clustered homes (to which it was entitled on the 516-acre property); status quo as a racetrack; purchase as open space; Single golf course and 74 houses, the last of which the present golf course is closest to at a single golf course and 20 homes, the "matrix" indicates that for a single golf course and 74 homes, fertilizer application would amount to 29,899 pounds per year and 1,420 pounds of pesticides per year (the matrix made no mention of "gallons" of pesticides, only pounds). Without even counting the 20 homes which are yet to be built, and only 80 acres of the golf course in fertilized turf, in the year 2001, the golf course used 52,260 lbs of fertilzers which is 22, 361 pounds more than was projected-almost twice as much.
For pesticides, in 2001 the golf course used 1774.25 lbs of pesticides rather than 1420 lbs, which is 354.25 pounds more than was projected and an additional 647.83 gallons which is 20% more pounds and 100% more gallons.
By vivid contrast, the 1996 FEIS charts 114 homes as using 3,447 pounds of fertilizer per year and between "0 - 785 lbs of pesticides per year. By comparison, just this golf course alone has used fifteen times as much fertilizer and two and a quarter times more pesticides than the 114 homes (and that's not counting the additional 647.83 gallons of pesticides). (If you mixed the pounds and gallons it could possibly be 3 times as much.)
To this we add its newest application for a 44,000 sq ft club house with a 15,000 gallon septic tank. The septic tank is equal to 30 homes with the standard 500 gallon tank.
In addition, a Cornell University report states: "at 2 du/acre [2 dwelling units per acre], the input of Nitrogen to groundwater from turf fertilizer is equivalent to septage input." As 80 acres of the golf course are treated with nitrates, that would be equal to 160 homes. That's 46 homes more than the 114, and we're not even counting the extra 20 mansions, club house and additional accessory buildings.
CONTARY to all the facts, and to this day, Supervisor Heaney and the developer, Mr. Rubin, have kept insisting that 114 clustered homes would have been more polluting (and, persuaded people into believing it, too). That is patently untrue as the above figures indicate. Supervisor Heaney and Mr. Rubin are unequivocally wrong. Far and away the golf course has proved to be more polluting than 114 homes. We told you so.
2001:
Fertilizer application = 52,260 lbs.
Pesticide Application =
| Pounds |
Oz |
Gallons |
Quarts |
FL (fluid liter) 3.785 liter = 1 gallon |
| 1766.75 lbs |
27.5 |
189.105 |
5 |
300.5 (79.39 gals) by Tiska/Bruno |
7.5 |
307 |
375.74 |
2 |
by Kopera |
2001:
Pounds Total = 1766.75 lbs
378.63
|
Gallons Total = 269.2 Applied by Tiska/ Bruno
7.5 lbs Applied by Kopera |
|
POUNDS 1774.25
GRAND
TOTAL
PESTICIDES
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GALLONS 647.83
GRAND
TOTAL
PESTICIDES
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More pesticides & fertilizers used in 2001 than were projected in matrix from 1996 F.E.I.S.
1996:
FEIS had said: Fertilizer application = 29,899 lbs.
Pesticides application =1420lbs/yr (no mention of gallons)
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