PAGE A-4 THE POST-STANDARD Thursday, March 24, 2011
LOCAL NEWS
Worries are damage
won’t be covered
WORRIES, FROM A-3
the Central New York Parks
and Recreation Society.
‘‘It is really is the crown
jewel of our facilities here,’’
said Jim Raulli, town parks
and recreation director.
But early ice movement is
causing problems at the park,
located between Bridgeport
and Lakeport on Route 31.
Such difficulties were part
of the discussion over whether
to build a permanent pier or a
floating seasonal pier. At
times, Sullivan Supervisor
John Becker himself ques-
tioned the project.
‘‘We’re really afraid that a
permanent pier that can stand
up to the ice and (winter)
weather will cost too much,’’
he told the Post-Standard in
2007.
Engineers settled on a de-
Many cars slip, slide,
but few are injured
By Charles McChesney
Staff writer
Winter weather snarled into
spring Wednesday, causing
traffic accidents around Cen-
tral New York.
Light snow turned heavy
around 3 p.m. and winds pick-
ed up, coating roads and side-
walks just as the afternoon
rush hour was getting under
way.
Dozens of accidents were
reported, with one police offi-
cer radioing in three crashes
along Hiawatha Boulevard in
Syracuse in a matter of min-
utes. A jack-knifed truck
closed Interstate 690 for a
while west of Syracuse and,
according to one dispatcher, a
Centro bus slid down the road
sideways as it tried to make its
way through the worst of the
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sign that supported the
200-foot-long pier with five
steel columns filled with heavy
stones known as riprap.
Raulli said the stones were
designed to break up the ice as
it came toward the shore, pro-
tecting the pier itself from
damage.
Instead, the ice chunks and
the rocks piled up under the
timber bridge decks, pushing
the dock off its foundation.
‘‘It happened so quickly,’’
said Raulli.
Becker said he isn’t sure
whether to blame Mother Na-
ture or the pier’s design.
The former would mean the
damage might not be covered
by the town’s insurance poli-
cy.
Contact Alaina Potrikus at John Berry / The Post-Standard
apotrikus@syracuse.com or VOLUNTEER TOM HUDSON, of Cato, releases brook trout Wednesday into Furnace Brook in Syracuse’s Elmwood
470-3252. Park. The fish were raised at the Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery.
Anglers, haul out your gear
Hatchery begins stocking 14 trout
storm. streams in Onondaga County.
Onondaga County Sheriff’s
Offices spokesman Sgt. John By David Figura
Outdoors editor
D’Eredita said he was unaware
of any serious injuries caused It happens every spring.
by the many crashes to which Despite melting snows and low tem-
deputies responded. peratures, staff and volunteers at the
Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery in
Emergency dispatchers in Elbridge this week began stocking
Cayuga, Oswego and Madison Onondaga County streams in prepara-
counties reported no serious tion for opening day of trout-fishing
injuries from accidents as well. season April 1.
Drivers struck guardrails, Travis Stanek, operations supervisor
at the hatchery, said the goal is to visit
According to Syracuse police, 14 streams by opening day and put in
officers responded to about 60 18,000 brown, brook and rainbow
accidents on streets and high- trout. The breakdown is 15,000 year-
ways in the city between 2 lings (fish that are 8 to 10 inches long)
p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Of those, and 3,000 two-year-olds (12 to 14
just five involved injuries, said inches long).
Sgt. Gary Bulinski, and none ‘‘We’re almost positive we’re going
of those injuries was consid- to have all the streams stocked,’’ Sta-
ered serious. nek said.
Contact Charles McChesney at County streams scheduled for stock-
cmcchesney@syracuse.com. ing are Nine Mile, Butternut Creek,
Limestone Creek, Limestone Creek’s
West Branch, Onondaga Creek, Onon-
daga Creek’s West Branch, Carpen-
0000267279-01 ter’s Brook, Fabius Brook, Furnace
Brook, Geddes Brook, Spafford
Brook, Tannery Creek, Skaneateles
Creek and Pools Brook.
The hatchery has three staff mem-
bers and relies heavily on volunteers to
help move the fish out of the hatch-
ery’s cement ponds and runways and
into the hatchery truck. The volunteers
then follow the truck and help put the
fish into the streams. No more volun-
teers are needed at this point, hatchery
officials said.
Tuesday, hatchery staff were sched-
uled to begin stocking Nine Mile
Creek, slated for 5,800 fish before the
opener. Stanek said the stream was too
John Berry / The Post-Standard high and too cold (39 degrees). A deci-
BROOK TROUT from Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery in Elbridge are trans- sion was reached to hold off for now.
ferred to a bucket before being released into Furnace Brook at Elmwood ‘‘We figure we’ll wait until next
Park in Syracuse. week and double up. Don’t worry,
Nine Mile will still get its share,’’ he
said. ‘‘We just hate to put fish in there
and have them wash down to where
Go to syracuse.com/videos for two videos, one of trout being nobody has access to them. We want
collected at the hatchery and the other of the fish being
released in Furnace Brook.
people to catch fish.’’
Contact David Figura at dfigura@syracuse.com
or 470-6066.
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Legislature OKs $950,000 lature Tuesday night approved grow,’’ college President Dan- provides significantly more
CCC’s $950,000 acquisition of iel Larson said in a release. space for classrooms and park-
for expanding school with the former P&C Foods build- The college plans to move ing and 20,000 more square
purchase of former P&C. ing in the River Glen Plaza in its current campus in the Ful- feet in a partial second floor to
Fulton from JHMPAC Inc. and ton Commons on West Broad- be added as part of the remod-
By Scott Rapp agreed to establish a capital way Street/Route 3 into the eling project.
Staff writer fund for the project. former P&C Foods building In addition, the college is
Cayuga Community College The state has committed to by the fall of 2012. considering buying 40 acres
has the green light to expand funding half of the $11.3 mil- Since the Fulton campus adjacent to the 20-acre site.
its Fulton campus to accom- lion renovation cost. opened in 1994, enrollment The college tried to buy the
modate its soaring student ‘‘We looked at several sites has jumped from 92 students same property last year, but
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The Cayuga County Legis- greatest flexibility and room to The former P&C property srapp@syracuse.com or 289-4839.