Check out this news from the Edison Wetlands Association. Extremely dangerous toxins are going unchecked in our own backyard, as you can see here at the Inman Sports Club site in Edison. Health concerns and continuing environmental questions make sights like this something everyone needs to worry about.
Toxic Waste at Inman Sports Club Raises Health Concerns
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I didn't realize Bart Simpson went to Cook. I'll have to look for him at the next homecoming.
You know it is time for you to grow up cease with the Bart Simpson pseudo-names add something of a positive nature to discussion, if you have any intelligence. If you want to troll go back to the Metuchen forum. That is more suited to your mental wit.
Fairness you sure are long winded. Yeah you can get a degree in turf management. At Cook College, those people were called the "sellouts." Also, if you know anythign about NJ's DEP, you know that just following their rules doesn't necessarily mean your aren't a polluter. It just means you are a "legal" polluter.
You know Eileen, if you are going to take the high road on the environment then you are better off making your point with analysis rather then off the cuff and crude remarks about people's employments like greens keeping.
To be clear, your view of a greens keeper is mis- guided from start to finish, besides the demeaning of a person's honorable employment. It is very serious employment done these days by educated people.
Shameful, you show a lack of respect for the knowledge that a person like that can have for the environment. It appears that you think the job is little more then cutting grass.
Well, it is a lot more. Many greens keepers hold degrees from agricultural institutions on lawn management and they make very good pay. Addi tonally, the state DEP closely regulates the use of chemicals on GC's and the greens keepers are responsible for monitoring it.
Eileen analysis wins over wit. To you I cite a well known organization where there is noted lack of documentation and footnoting which has been called into question about their research work on a number of occasions.
The National Defense Resource Council or NDRC publishes reports on pollution, it is constantly getting press after submitting their reports to members of Congress and making them public.
Yet, the NDRC manages to change little with their work but they do employ people. Why, because the "other side" introduces at great cost a documented research paper to refute the NDRC's positions. I have seen it way too many times and it is beyond me why they continue to produce papers without real documentation. First thing people ask when they see an NDRC report now is it documented? But live and learn.
In conclusion, I hope you learn Eileen, we all need to be better educated on the environment and you win people over is with facts vice wit.
Wow, your NJ sarcasm is funny. Who would trust the word of the greenskeeper at Metuchen G&CC?
Like I said, I like Jersey sarcasm. There is an old saying and I wish more people followed it. Know ye the Truth and Truth shall set you free. If you do not want to do that, I suggest you call a local country club like Metuchen G&C and make inquiries of the Greens-keeper.
I am sure he/she can set up a demonstration for those of you who are environmentally concerned and need to be updated on what business is doing about it. It pays to know and that will not cost anything but your time it is worth the education.
Correction and it a big one important to the article. Tests consistently reveal that the water flowing into Baltusrol is now dirter then flowing out.
You pay for the LEXIS and I'll do all the research you "suggest."
Eileen, all do respect you are caught in the past in your beliefs which are incorrect by todays' Golf Management Standards. I suggest you do some research.
Please refer to recent articles in the National news papers citing Baltusrol G&C in Springfield NJ and other NJ courses as examples for their effective filtration management system in improving the environment. You may find them using Lexus-Nexus. NJ is leading the way for once on this. No politicians involved here looking for a cut thank you, though, I am sure they will try.
All the courses are doing it because of escalating costs and keeping the environment greener. They use less pesticides, fertilizers and the resulting browner greens and fairways have not seen a rise in golfers complaining either.
At Baltusrol for example, measurements of water flow are taken at ingress and egress point on the course. Tests consistently reveal that the water flowing into Baltusrol is now cleaner then flowing out. NJ Golf courses are making a difference. Golf course management is now a business science designed to maimize costs just like semi-pro and pro football and baseball fields are as well.
All golf courses are toxic. They're covered in pesticides and herbicides. They have some of the worst runoff. It ain't easy bein' green.
Good try. I like Jersey sarcasm. No these were specific signs put out by the environmental crew on certain areas of the property to warn and they were down range.
If you ever played there when they were doing the assessment you would have seen hundreds of surveying flags. So many in fact your balls would always hit the flags no matter what or where you hit them.
Uh, do you think it's at all possible they say "keep off the grass" so you don't get skulled in the noggin with a golf ball?
I have not hit a ball there in two weeks. But, this is no secret. There was environmental testing of every inch of that range last fall. They tell you do not walk on the grass. Vast areas of Middlesex are waste dumps.
Let's see tire manufacturing, military munitions, chemical storage, car manufacturing to name a few in Middlesex. In other-words all the elements that made America and New Jersey an industrial giant through the 1970's.
Anyone care to be an industrial giant again? I hope so. Because you are not making a living right now being a service sector. Hopefully, we will be just a little more careful this time. Maybe some green technology, if our politicians don't line their pockets too much. They will--its New Jersey.
The Hyatt Hills Golf course in Clark by GM is a good example of a current site clean up by GM at one of their former plants. At Linden airport, they had to remedy a large earthen mound full of lead contaminants caused by test firing bullets from Grumman fighters and bombers built at the at the GM plant across the street in WWII. Neither government or industry understood or gave a hoot back then it was a different time, we had a war to win.
What concerns me more then anything else is the whole sale over charging done in NJ to remove these wastes which reduces the pool of available monies to remedy more super-fund sites.
If our NJ goverment wants to help they should regulate that more closely costs of removal but they won't because the politicans get their cut of the action. No secret anymore either is it?