Governor Deval Patrick:

You are hearing from hundreds of Friends of the Blue Hills members and others who are concerned about the Blue Hills Covered Storage Project, an MWRA plan to fill over half the Blue Hills Reservoir on Chickatawbut Road in the Blue Hills Reservation in Quincy in order to build massive concrete storage tanks.

The project has been consistently misrepresented by MWRA
The project has no public support
The project will cost hard-pressed ratepayers $40 million
The project is outrageously out of proportion to the risks it addresses
The project breaks with the long-standing no net loss of wetlands policy, first applied by Governor Dukakis and upheld by four Republican governors prior to the project
The project will do major and permanent damage to the Blue Hills Reservation

Today we are mailing you a letter about the project (short version/long version). It asks you to take specific action to protect the Blue Hills. We have done our best, but we need your help. Please help us show that citizens can make a difference in Massachusetts.

The Friends of the Blue Hills
http://www.friendsofthebluehills.org/index.htm

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