Monthly Archives: March 2021

NYS Prepare Website presents Citizen Preparedness Corps Training Course

A new Emergency Preparedness Course offered online by New York State, Homeland Security.   It's found on a website devoted to creating a "corps" of NYS Citizens, who are better prepared in the event of an emergency, and can help their own family and others if a natural, or unnatural catastrophe occurs.   The website…
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Holley Falls Embankment Dam – An Accident Waiting to Happen?

It's no secret that the raised Earthen Embankments that make up much of the Erie Canal are unsafe.   But getting the public to understand the safety issues to their communities, and having them engage the New York State Canal Corporation (NYSCC) to quickly identify these unsafe earth dams and repair them, has been a…
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