Letter: Environmental abuse running rampant in Little Compton

Posted 8/3/16

To the editor:

........we don't start regulating soon! The libertarian beliefs in this

town are going to destroy it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

The harbor is so …

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Letter: Environmental abuse running rampant in Little Compton

Posted

To the editor:

Little Compton is headed for a "Tragedy of the Commons" if we don't start regulating soon! The libertarian beliefs in this town are going to destroy it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

The harbor is so completely contaminated with sewage that shellfishing has been prohibited year-round for several years, and no one seems to care to find the source and fix it.

Another business building has been shuttered by a contaminated well in the Commons.

The Vineyard and Stone House have run roughshod over their neighborhoods with noise, traffic and impending nitrate contamination of Round Pond.

Watson Reservoir is so contaminated with agricultural chemicals that it has to be treated three times to remove the trihalomethanes before it can be consumed.

Massive amounts of farm chemicals are used in this town without monitoring and regulation by an overseeing Farm Bureau to protect our groundwater from contamination

Unregulated lighting is contaminating our night skies and interfering with migratory bird flyways, and predation by owls and bats of rodent and insect farm pests.

The warning signs are all around us!

Mimi Karlsson

Little Compton

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