The local blogging scene kind of sucks since Hayduke scaled back his blogging operations. Who cares that the County at large is benefiting from Hayduke’s work? (Totally kidding.)
Anyway, what in the heck was the developer of Turf Valley thinking by hiding the not-so rosy results of a test of arsenic levels for two years? As much pressure was on the developer to be forthright about site contamination, one would expect total honesty. Maybe we don’t know enough to draw final conclusions, but it sure looks like the developer tried to pull a fast one. If so, that was a very stupid move.
I don’t play golf, but I can think of five golf courses (besides Turf Valley) in Howard County. One of which, Timbers at Troy, is County owned. Are they all polluting the environment? A law might fall out this mess that would require environmental testing of golf courses prior to development. If so, that is a waste. Market pressures will take care of that, just like they did in this case. A useful law would be one that would prevent golf courses from polluting in the first place.
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While I agree with your sentiments, Freemarket, that "the local blog scene" has dipped a bit since Hayduke has been calibrating himself and his blog to his new job, the local blog scene -- assuming you're interested in more than policy conversations -- is quite alive. Check out ezColumbia's list of recent blog posts by Howard County bloggers.
http://www.ezcolumbia.com/misc/blogs.html
That is exactly what should be done (prohibit use of polluting levels of toxic chemicals), but the developer already knows there will be no retribution, no price to pay for hiding the results. He wins.
Business as usual.
Marc Norman knew, many of us knew this was certainly the case. Anything else defies logic. But we don't own big development companies who subsidize political campaigns, so we have no representation, no one who will work to advance our best interests.
I heard about this on the WBAL news. So, what, now I have to get my local news from the TV stations?
Coincidentally, today I came across the DPZ decision to shut down access to the Turf Valley file last august.
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