Many thanks for Brian Postelle’s excellent article on the Kenilworth Assault [“Go Tell It on the Mountain,” Feb. 14]. But there are a few remarks made by Project Manager Gerald Green that require amplification.
First, why didn’t the developer simply change the original plat to put more space around the existing African-American cemetery? It seems to me a much simpler solution than informing future property owners [this way]: “We have let all of our neighbors know that there is a possibility of other graves beyond that boundary,” and promising to warn people buying lots that “there may be some graves within 20 feet of the cemetery and to leave [them] alone or get a more extensive archaeological survey.”
Just who gets and pays for the survey, the buyer or the seller? In other words, potential property owners who garden should be on their guard, especially when double-digging? The response to Frank Adams’ [question] asking about construction runoff suggests that, and [that] the developer is monitoring water quality to avoid any water running into Kenilworth Lake. What water is he monitoring? Where are his silt ponds? So far it’s all mud!
It’s my understanding that at the junction of the logging road and Kenilworth Road, the rubber layer under the crushed stone is to keep logging trucks and carriers from sinking too deep in the damp soil. Again, just where is the water that Mr. Green is concerned about? Living on Kenilworth Lake, and well aware of the silt that can wash into the lake, I, for one, would love to know what he’s doing to protect not only the lake but the Beaucatcher watershed.
The only good thing is nobody in the developer’s cadre mentions the use of the infamous silt fences of North Carolina, where plastic that waves in the wind gently fondles the dirt and dust that moves underneath the fencing.
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