PETITION DELIVERED AT CITY PARK GOLF COURSE City Park Friends and Neighbors (CPFAN.org) President, Hank Bootz and Board Member, Louis Plachowski, rolled out 50 feet of an 80 foot scroll that contained 1575 signatures ( we now have 1730) to tell Mayor Hancock to leave historic City Park Golf Course (PGC) as it is. The occasion was a City sponsored "drop in" at the CPGC Club House to solicit citizen feedback on the city's plans to redo the course: • Close, the affordable course for 2 years • Cut down 285 large trees • Bulldoze the Club House • Build a big "event center" across from the Denver Zoo • Excavate 50 acres of vegetation covered soil .... ...All to install an industrial drainage sump complete with a big inlet and outfall, to catch toxic, trash filled rain water run off. https://youtu.be/vyWTRbym4v0 CONSERVATION NOT DRAINAGE Climate change means warmer temperatures , greenhouse gases and drought. Does Denver need to spend money to build a system to CONSERVE RAIN WATER for our use or a DRAINAGE system to funnel precious rain water of the city ASAP? https://youtu.be/gzt69QnKMFs Guess who the "hero" is that can save us? TREES. SUPERFUND SITES CAN KILL YOU As bad as the drainage sump in CPGC sounds, our neighbors to the north in Cole, Globeville, Swansea and Elyria could be in for serious health and safety risks if Denver starts digging in un-remediated parts of the I70/Vasquez ,SUPERFUND SITE, to installs other parts of their old fashioned-style drainage system... to keep proposed Highway I70 and the new development around the Western Stock Show from flooding. If Denver digs, we could all be breathing in the pollution form these toxic sites. DID ANYONE ASK YOU? Billions will be spent.... without one vote of the people. WHERE IS THE EPA? Congress mandated in the CERCLA laws ( SUPERFUND) that The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversee a detailed Community Involvement Plan (CIP) to reach out to citizens in communities potentially impacted by pollution in SUPERFUND sites. EPA must ensure that these people are informed about the pollutants that could cause serious health and safety problems and even death, BEFORE any work started in the SUPERFUND site. The EPA must solicit feedback, suggestions and concerns from these people and incorporate them to the extent possible in the final plans.See the CIP: http://tinyurl.com/zn5vh9k The local EPA delegated all responsibility for this process to Denver, the owner of the land. We don't recall Denver ever mentioning the word SUPERFUND at any public meetings let alone handing out lists of potential pollutants and risks. A group of concerned citizens has asked the EPA to take back responsibility for this important CIP process and to halt progress on work in the I70/Vasquez SUPER FUND site for 6 months so that the EPA can to do a credible CIP.