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Mark Swaney does much volunteer work mowing and otherwise cleaning up between the bridges. <br><br><br><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Friday, September 18, 2020, 8:39 PM, roger kalter via Green <green@fuusm.org> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv3627507630"><div>
Dear Rebecca and River Bank Team, Tom Fenton paid you have the bank clear cut of trees up to 8-inch diameter. He and the late Merv Wendelken have decimated all trees on<div>that River bank for decades. Tom Fenton is also responsible for destruction of shade trees on Maple Street and elsewhere nearby. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>He is a conspiracy theory, ult-right player. </div><div>He is not a bridge building community member on his best day. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>He has no problem with speaking complete falsehoods before city council. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Be very wary. </div><div>Roger G. Kalter</div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv3627507630yqt9384151992" id="yiv3627507630yqt50125"><p class="yiv3627507630yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size:15px;color:#715FFA;padding-top:15px;margin-top:0;">On Friday, September 18, 2020, 8:27 PM, Rebecca Phillips via Green <green@fuusm.org> wrote:</p><blockquote class="yiv3627507630iosymail"><div id="yiv3627507630"><style type="text/css">#yiv3627507630 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style><div dir="ltr">
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We should check the official information; I am going on what Geoff and Jackson said. The safety services director should be able to confirm--will probably get to meet him on Sunday.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 18, 2020 8:23 PM<br clear="none">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Green] Meeting with Harmar residents re: grant proposal
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<div dir="ltr">Rebecca, not sure who gave you the information about who owns the riverbank. Is it the official information from the property title office, or is it information that "everyone" just knows?
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<div>On Friday, September 18, 2020, 6:57:43 PM EDT, Rebecca Phillips via Green <green@fuusm.org> wrote:
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">I did a walkaround of the Harmar riverbank with Jackson Patterson of Main Street West, City Council Ward 4 representative Geoff Schenkel, and neighborhood residents Mark Swaney, Tom Fenton, and Debbie (who
did not give her last name—she joined us late). Takeaways from the discussion:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">Riverbank ownership between the Putnam Street and railroad bridges is indeed a mix of public and private. The area past the railroad bridge is 100% public—City of Marietta down to the Fort Harmar marker, then
Marietta City Schools in the area behind Harmar School.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">The entire riverbank is maintained by community volunteers.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">More interest in riverbank planting and maintenance than in a charging station, though there was no opposition to the idea.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">In the area between the railroad bridge and the school:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">Tom Fenton has done a very small pollinator bed with mixed “wildflower” seed that seems to be mostly cosmos and zinnias—planted very thickly. He reports that the planting has helped keep the weeds (a lot of
crown vetch and Johnson grass) under control.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">A neighborhood concern: maintaining areas for viewing the Sternwheel fireworks. (This comes up every time I talk to anyone from Harmar.) Currently, all of the flat area (along Fort Street and at the bottom
of the slope) is kept mowed for seating. I have been told that Harmar residents come with blankets and lawn chairs and use the space as a park and that it is packed during festivals. The people present today want that use kept.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">There is interest in having the slope planted for pollinators—BUT--”it needs to look neat.” The preference is for no obstruction of the view—anything on the upper slope no more than 30-36 inches, anything taller
down closer to the river.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">There was a major controversy last year when the neighbors cleared “weeds” from the lower riverbank that happened to include a number of young trees. The current compromise: the sycamores and other trees send
up root sprouts that reach 6-8 feet in a season, then are cut down in the winter. The view is kept, but the pollarded trees stay alive and hold the riverbank. (This would not be my preference, but I don't live there.)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">The actual riverbank belongs to the Corps of Engineers.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">The three Fort Street residents I met today would like to see a planting plan—they like flowers and pollinators but have their specs.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">The area behind Harmar School:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">Known as Harmar Beach, it includes a sandy area replenished whenever the river is dredged.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">Steep slope formerly a Harmar School land lab, now mostly Johnson grass and Japanese knotweed, though the latter has been sprayed and currently looks dead—will have to see if it comes back in the spring</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">Flat grassy area leading to the sand “beach”--currently mowed by neighborhood volunteers and used as a picnic and play area.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">Discussion of working with the school to plant the slope.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">Area between Putnam and railroad bridges:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">Not discussed this morning—there was more interest in the area beyond the railroad bridge.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.08in;margin-bottom:0in;">Upcoming: the Main Street West meeting has been moved to this Sunday, September 20. It has been designed as a “walking meeting” to tour the West Side and Steve Wetz, the Marietta Safety Services director, plans
to attend. This will be my opportunity to meet him and hear the ideas of other Harmar residents.</p>
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