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Get lead out
of airplane gas
In Santa Clara County, we all know that leaded gas from planes is poisoning youngsters. Because of the work of Rep. Ro Khanna, Supervisor Cindy Chavez and civic chief Marciela Lechuga, the nation is aware of in regards to the hazard this gas poses.
A congressional listening to chaired by Khanna featured testimony from Chavez and Lechuga in regards to the lead publicity that youngsters on San Jose’s Eastside face from Reid-Hillview Airport.
4 thousand youngsters reside inside 1.5 miles of the airport. There are additionally 21 faculties and day care facilities inside that radius the place extra youngsters spend hours a day.
The peer-reviewed examine commissioned by the county and launched in 2021 made plain simply how a lot lead air pollution the airport causes. It discovered the blood lead ranges in youngsters residing inside 1.5 miles of Reid-Hillview have been at a degree much like youngsters residing in Flint, Mich., throughout that metropolis’s water disaster.
There isn't a secure degree of lead in youngsters.
Kathleen King
CEO, More healthy Children Basis
San Jose
Reid-Hillview was
there earlier than properties
Two letters in yesterday’s paper referred to as for closing Reid-Hillview airport. Each confirmed an appalling disregard for the info.
The airport was not out of the blue plunked down in a residential space; it was established in 1937, lengthy earlier than any of those homes or faculties have been constructed. If it’s not secure to have a home or college close to the airport, why have been these homes and faculties allowed to be constructed? If Ms. Bauer thinks Meyer College just isn't secure due to the airport, she, as superintendent, can resolve this downside by closing the varsity. The county has a whole lot of different faculties, however solely 4 airports. There aren't any “a long time of injustice” to residents — they selected to purchase a home close to the airport and certain this proximity made their home extra reasonably priced.
When a automotive crashes right into a home or enterprise we don’t shut the freeway to resolve the issue.
Mark Lawrence
Palo Alto
Time to get rid
of messy geese
Geese at our parks and golf programs are a scourge that wants abatement. These will not be endangered animals; they simply create an enormous mess.
Activists ought to go to Shoreline Park to see the injury; the geese now personal it. We gained’t take our grandchildren there anymore. Goose poop is in every single place. I gained’t golf Shoreline Golf Course, the tenth gap is unplayable. Balls land in poop, one has to stroll and stand in poop, it's disgusting. They're taking on Sunnyvale Golf Course now. Poop in every single place. Maybe activists can volunteer to choose up the poop: Convey giant buckets and plan to return each single day, all day — it by no means ends.
In the event that they love the animals, allow them to clear up after them. Sufficient, let’s do away with them.
James Amato
Mountain View
Park Constitution Fund
a win for grassroots
Congratulations to Santa Clara County’s Park Constitution Fund on its fiftieth anniversary. As a long-time county resident, I notice this is without doubt one of the most essential community-funded initiatives in our county’s historical past, sustaining 52,000 acres of public parks and trails. My operating buddies and I've spent many peaceable mornings on these trails. We’re lucky that fifty years in the past folks had the foresight to make sure there would nonetheless be open house for us to get pleasure from as we speak.
I just lately joined the board of Inexperienced Foothills, the group that led the marketing campaign to win voter approval for the Park Constitution Fund. Inexperienced Foothills’ grassroots advocacy exhibits how involvement from residents such as you and me could make an amazing distinction within the environmental legacy we go away for future generations. I hope this conjures up others to become involved to guard a greener future and guarantee we at all times have nature near dwelling.
Arpana Tiwari
Los Altos