Beacon Island project lawsuit is misguided

I appreciated the article describing efforts by Glenmont homeowners to stop construction of a facility vitally important to reducing New York’s greenhouse gas emissions (“River-area dwellers get tough on Beacon Island,” Aug. 7). The Glenmont homeowners have concerns for their own health and property values.

I would sympathize more with the Glenmont homeowners if I did not live in a home I own within two blocks of the Brobdingnagian Beaver Creek construction project that has been overturning soil fouled with decades of sewer seepage, causing a goodly amount of that soil to become airborne as dust.

I have kept my mouth shut and lawyer dormant because I have the courage to trust experts and soothe my own anxieties for the benefit of other people and other living things. The project in my neighborhood is designed to reduce discharge from the sewers into the Hudson River, preventing human waste from flowing toward the homeowners in Glenmont.

In fact, I also have the wisdom to enjoy being driven on the bus rather than going to the trouble of driving myself.

Perhaps the people of Glenmont could redirect the concern for their own health, in some measure, to the health of others, prompting them, for example, to use CDTA Park & Ride facilities when they want to come to Albany, instead of taxing my lungs further by driving through

my neighborhood.

Just because we can untether our lawyers does not mean we must untether our lawyers. James Lyons Walsh Albany