Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Erin go Exposés?

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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Erin go Exposés?

As spring has sprung, so to it would appear that effluent has hit the fan – or, more correctly, ended up in the harbor.

Specifically, last Friday the United States Attorney for Massachusetts filed suit against the City of Quincy.

Vengence is mine!
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The suit was filed on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency given over a decade’s worth of data indicating spillings of raw sewerage as well as other sorts of pollution into both local fresh waterways and the harbor.

Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch then endeavored to turn the table onto the EPA by noting that the City of Quincy has spent many millions on its sewer and drain system in recent years.

So what, apparently, for the fact that the EPA has a decade’s worth of data that documents that spills would appear to still be an ongoing problem.

That and the existence of roughly a million and half dollars in fix-it consent agreements and stop it expenses in recent years on other sorts of waste spills into the harbor, knowingly engaging in flood water mismanagement violations and work done given plans to improperly misuse restored wetlands.

Seeking chum and chumps in the water …
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Needless to say, past patterns and practices can as well as often do come back to bite one on the tukas.

Additionally, there are indications that Koch Maladministration dopes appear to have been playing Rop-a-Dope – if not also perhaps trafficking in bad faith – as the City of Quincy has dragged things out for years.

Not to worry …
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At best, Mayor Koch spun up a response based on how Quincy has already spent millions on sewerage and drain infrastructure in recent years and is planning to continue spending to maintain what are municipal infrastructure systems averaging upwards of a hundred years of age and thus use as well as wear and tear.

So what also for the fact that EPA testing continues to show problems.

That and how he – a small city mayor – is not willing to abide by the germane federal authorities for such matters.

Cash and can carry only so much
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Then again, Mayor Koch has only so much money available.

Reasons include that he is already well along in undertaking hundreds of millions of dollars of municipal debt that will help facilitate enriching favored developers in Quincy Center by providing them with many tens of millions in incentives while at the same time further exposing local taxpayers to all manner of unhedged risks care of Mayor Koch taking on all manner of risks normally taken on by developers.

Dancing waters at Kim Jong Koch Plaza
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That and how Mayor Koch has also already spent somewhere north of $28 million to date on Kim Jong Kech Plaza in front of City Hall with millions more slated to follow eventually when the MBTA might see its obsolescent Quincy Center Red Line and bus station redone.

Further problematic for both Mayor Koch and local property taxpayers is the impending release of a triennial audit review of the City of Quincy’s employee pension fund.

Look out below
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Already, Quincy Quarry’s financial and other illicit affairs desk expect the audit all but assuredly make the MBTA’s woefully underfunded employee pension funds look flush.

Then again, why worry as paying the piper in full on everything is going to be strung out until into at least the early 2040’s?

In other words, the Quarry is looking at fishing in a barrel for years to come even if it has no plans whatsoever to ever eat any of the fish so caught.

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