Meeting 3 completed

Moving right along... Public Working Group meeting 3 spoke of site characteristics. We heard from MMM's Bill Draper on 13 natural characteristics he chose to focus on. I presented a diagram illustrating the vast area available at Walkley, enough to fit a couple of the Lester-size facilities.

The natural study done by MMM and in the EA, uses arbitrary footprints for the space required to build a maintenance/storage facility. True, an environmental study must take into consideration the surrounding lands but this was done in such a way to bring the Walkley site 'up' in natural characteristics. At the same time the Medeola woods East of the tracks at the Lester site were excluded from the natural study. All of this makes comparing the three sites difficult.

Meeting three capped off with Cheryl presenting natural info on 2 of the 3 sites before she ran out of time. Her sources were botanist/wetland expert Albert Dugal, Mick Panashar (Breeders Bird Atlas), Christine Hanrahan, and others.

Minutes have not yet been distributed.