09/03/2021
It is official, Your Town Board Members and Planning Boards of Riverhead decided to allow a solar company to purchase the viable property (Cousins Paintball and the Long Island Sports Park which was leasing with the intention of eventually buying) to purchase and build a 198 acre solar farm or the new term "Solar Power Station" on lands that our government promised us would never happen. These Solar Companies were only supposed to be permitted to purchase and place their solar panels on brownfields, landfills, and non-usable lands nowhere near a community water supply or farmfields that were responsible for feeding the community. We the Taxpayers who are paying for these properties through grants and federal and state subsidies (our tax monies) were promised that these would not be high valued properties, that the lands sought by the solar companies were basically un-usable vacant lands that were not generating any tax revenue for the community, we agreed to this so long as our water supply could never be impacted by a disaster that could release their hazardous toxic chemicals into our water supply contaminating it forever. But your town board members decided during covid lockdown to permit a valuable, productive, tax revenue generating, and popular property frequented by nearly 100,000 people a year and employed nearly 100 young adults a year, provided tens of thousands of dollars to the local businesses for food, lodging, event permits, and other operating supplies to be sold at nearly 3-4x market value which we are paying for. Your Town Boards were not interested in your concerns or your input, all they wanted was our 33 million tax dollars over the next 30 years and the acceptance of the Green New Disaster sent our way from Albany NY which makes us fossil free by 2030 in their delusional world of economics. We will be paying, your kids will be paying, and their kids will be paying for this idiocy. Now we have to pray that every natural disaster skip by us so as not to destroy the solar panels so their chemicals cant contaminate our water supply and our soil based crops in the farmfields. They should be ashamed of themselves but they are not, they are celebrating because they have tax monies granted to the solar companies by our federal and state govt. now pouring in to balance their poorly run budgets and to spend on pet projects along with the pathbook for the master plan. Sacrificing 600 - 1000 acres of valuable lands in Calverton for chump change in the overall scheme of things including a potential water and crop catastrophe for all of us who drink the water and eat the local crops. Another Outdoor Recreational Park and Mini Golf Course bulldozed in Riverhead. Sept 15th 2021 is set to be the last day of Mini Golf in RIverhead. Be sure to Thank your Town Board Members for their unpopular decision to allow this. They will say they had no choice but they did have a choice, they were weak and greedy at the same time. They never should have allowed their application for permits to be approved. They could have accepted their application but did not have to approve the use on an environmentally rich with wildlife, rich with human activity, and a potential hazard to our water supply. This could have been prevented so dont let them conviince you otherwise. Should have allowed a Judge to decide on merits and duty to protect your community from a potential hazard.
