Talk:Long Island, Maine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject Maine, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Maine.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.

	This article is supported by WikiProject Cities, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to cities, towns, and various other settlements on Wikipedia. For more information, or to get involved, visit the project page.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the importance scale.

Long Island Maine is the best place to vacation in the world! But do NOT swim in the freshwater marsh/pond, because it is filled with toxic contamination thanks to runoff from pipes that are fed by underground fuel tanks.

Contents 1 Contaminated Marsh 2 Removal of the Area Tanks 3 Page Updated 4 Please Help Organize This Article 5 This Article as me Torked

[edit] Contaminated Marsh

When the Navy built the underground Fuel Tanks, runoff flowed into pipes that in turn drained into the once vibrant freshwater marsh. Now, after decades of contamination, that persists to this day, this marsh is nothing short of an ecological disaster area, that Long Islanders and Town Officials would rather ignore than deal with. What a shame. Conservation area? Well, the contamination is being conserved, that's for sure. Sludge traps in the pipes are not cleaned, and the fear of reduced property values has kept this issue under the radar for long enough. A clean-up is in order.

-Bradley McDonough

[edit] Removal of the Area Tanks

Though it only seems logical for a full-fledged government clean-up to take place through-out the entire "Area" as it's called by locals, the EPA refuses to authorize such a massive project as they fear that the removal of the "Area" tanks will do greater damage to the surrounding environment than if they were to keep them installed. No one swims in the dirty marsh anyway out of fear of blood-sucking leaches.

[edit] Page Updated

I have updated the page with an image that was been downloaded from the Long Island website. If anyone has more images of Long Island, Maine please post them in the gallery.

[edit] Please Help Organize This Article

For those out there with a better eye for arranging graphics on Wikipedia Articles, please help by re-arranging any of the graphics on this article so that it looks better--I would like to see this as a featured article. Almost Famous 01:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This Article as me Torked

I guess small town articles can only go so far. Livin' Large 10:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)