Articles from The New Franklin Register
Reconsidering Geothermal Systems If you have long presumed, as this writer did, that geothermal heating and cooling were practical only for vast industrial complexes or newly constructed McMansions, think again. “The house was always cold, even with the electric heaters on,” says Bryan Babcock, co-owner with his wife Betsy of Handsome Brook Farm and Bed […]
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Oil & Gas Pollution in New York State Part II The Short Reports: In the last 30 years or so, there have been dozens of reports of oil, gas, or brine polluting the water and air in New York State. But the Division of Mineral Resources (DMN) has failed to find the oil and gas
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This article is a continuation of “One House at a Time, Solving the Energy Crisis”, by Norm Farwell, published in the New Franklin Register #18, Fall 2012. Solving the Energy Crisis Here are a few principles to help with that. Forget upfront cost, think life cycle cost. The operating and maintenance costs of a building
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Download a PDF copy of the New Franklin Register Issue #18 (3.6MB) by clicking on the image at right. See the index of this issue, and links to all previous issues, on the index page. Issue #18, Vol. VI No. 3, Fall 2012
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Work has begun to replace the 150 year-old system that supplies water to the Village of Franklin. Beginning in late September, streets were trenched 3 feet wide and 5 feet deep. Green PVC pipe was laid above the existing water mains. Two 10 inch pipes were laid from the well house along Otsego Street. From
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A Gallery of Believe It Or Not Our Delaware County Board of Supervisors has been taking care of business — and doing it their own way. When they were offered presentations on gas drilling, our Supervisors heard one from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and one from the Independent Oil and Gas
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The proposed 2013 budget for the Town of Franklin is $1.83 million. Subtracting the $0.29 million in expected revenues and a balance from last year of $0.26 million, the amount to be raised through property taxes is to be $1.27 million. Compared to last year, this will result in an increase in property taxes of
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The reconstruction of the intersection of Routes 28 and 357 in North Franklin is scheduled for 2015 with a budget of $850,000. This is a year later and $50,000 more than was projected a year ago. NYSDOT has not yet made the choice between a roundabout and a T-intersection. Sketches of the two alternatives are
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Oil & Gas Pollution in New York State Part I Current Regulation: Eventually the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will release the final Supplemental GEIS, which will include guidelines for the safe horizontal drilling and fracturing of black shales. If and when drilling and fracking come to Franklin, will the DEC assure that it is
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The new Flood Insurance Rate Maps for Franklin show the reach of the Special Flood Hazard Zone (a.k.a flood plain) according to the Flood Damage Prevention Law, passed at the April Town Board meeting as Local Law 2012-1. Our one flood plain extends from the East Sidney Reservoir up the Ouleout Creek to just above
In the last few months, everything has changed – but in reality, nothing has changed. What has changed? The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company seems to have dropped its Northeast Extension Project, after the partnership of Williams and Cabot announced their Constitution Pipeline. Instead of moving the gas from the Tennessee #300 pipeline, the gas will
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A primer for getting the most you can from eminent domain The Constitution Pipeline repeats the Marcy South power line experience in that hundreds of land owners in Delaware County will lose control of parts of their property for inadequate compensation — even though the project is of little benefit to residents. Unwilling owners will
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