"If it ain't broke don't fix it…"
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Harold Cones <[email protected]>
To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Swlfest] Fwd: Public comments sought for anticipated adverse
effect on historic properties
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 17:40:41 -0500
As a marsh guy I am having a hard time figuring out how tearing up the marsh to
remove some poles is a good thing. I took students to this area for many years
to work in these beautiful marshes.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Ed Cummings <[email protected]> wrote:
Wouldn't mucking about in the marshlands with heavy equipment to rip out
hundreds of poles and metal antennae cause far more ecological damage than just
leaving them in place to rot? Who came up with this dumb idea--a government
contractor looking for a nice contract?
I wonder if any hams or pirates ever made use of the HF antennae after AT&T
left. Quite a ground plane!
Many times I listened to WOO and similar AT&T Long Lines HF stations back in
the day for entertainment. What caused that spooky "whale sound" artifact?
-Ed Cummings
At 12:15 PM 11/5/2015, Richard Cuff wrote:
Hi everyone - See the note below...the US Fish & Wildlife Service is
considering some shoreline pole removal for AT&T's WOO shore-to-ship
transmitter site in New Jersey; this site was also used for VOA broadcasts from
1944 onward. Public comment is invited; see the link down near the bottom of
the message.. Also - we should have an update on the 2016 Fest information
within the next week; watch this space! Richard Cuff / Allentown, PAÂ USA
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cultural Resources, FW5
<[email protected]> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:12 PM Subject: Public
comments sought for anticipated adverse effect on historic properties To:
[email protected] Dear North American Shortwave Association: The U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service proposes a pole removal project in the tidal marshlands of the
Good Luck Point (Ocean Gate) and Manahawkin units of Edwin B. Forsythe National
Wildlife Refuge in Ocean County, New Jersey. The undertaking will contribute to
saltmarsh enhancement funded by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013.
The proposal is for hundreds of poles to be removed, in addition to cables,
wires, metal towers, and concrete blocks. The goal of this action is to enhance
coastal marsh habitats by increasing marsh resiliency from impacts of large
storm events and other ecosystem stressors. The poles are part of inactive
shortwave antenna fields associated with AT&T’s
ship-to-shore shortwave communications system, which was in operation at the
sites from the early 1930s until 1999. The wires connecting the antenna poles
were removed by AT&T prior to the creation of the National Wildlife Refuge
units. Good Luck Point in Berkeley Township, Ocean County includes a shortwave
transmitter building and antenna field. The municipality owns the shuttered
building, while the poles of the inactive antenna field are on Refuge land.
Under the call sign WOO, the shortwave facility at Good Luck Point (known as
Ocean Gate) was a renowned transmitting station, which helped broadcast Voice
of America around the globe after 1944 and enabled communication with ships at
sea throughout the twentieth century. The historic property is eligible for
listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The proposed project will
remove approximately 340 wooden poles from the inactive antenna field, along
with several metal antennae. Manahawkin in Stafford Township, Ocean County
includes the WOO companion site, which consists of a shortwave receiving
station and antenna field. Via Manahawkin, shortwave communications from ships
at sea were linked to America’s telephone network from the
1930s until 1999. The entire Refuge unit is within a conservation easement to
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which does not own the building. The
historic property is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic
Places. The proposed project will remove approximately 113 wooden poles from
the antenna field. Several metal antennas will be removed, as well. Because
both of the historic properties represent well-preserved examples of nationally
significant shortwave facilities, they have been determined eligible for
National Register listing. Consequently, the proposed removal of poles from the
antenna fields will cause an adverse effect under Section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act. A mitigation program is being developed in
consultation with the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office. In
accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service seeks public comment on the anticipated adverse
effect. The public is invited to submit comments concerning the
project’s effects on the historic properties to
[email protected] . The public comment period ends on November 15, 2015.
Additional information is available via this Web link:
http://www.fws.gov/refuge/edwin_b_forsythe/ Thank you for your interest. --
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Cultural Resources Program Division of Refuge
Field Support Northeast Regional Office 300 Westgate Center Drive Hadley, MA
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