Serrata Photo Fall 2016 Annual Meeting “Letchworth’s Portage Viaduct, New and Old” November 6 United Methodist Church Headlines November 6 Annual Meeting 25 Minard Street, Fillmore 2:00 PM Greenway Everyone fond of the Portage Viaduct business with his brother that primarily Walk—meet at won’t want to miss the November 6 makes model trains, plus he is restoring a church Friends annual meeting. Chris Costello, a luxury passenger car that used to belong to 4:30 PM Portage Viaduct licensed surveyor, will present an illustrated the Erie Railroad, the company that built Program talk about the history of the existing 141- “our” bridge above the Genesee River, the 5:30 PM Dish to Pass Dinner—bring year-old iconic Erie railroad bridge over Genesee Valley Canal, and what became table service Letchworth Park’s gorge and the the Pennsylvania Railroad, now the route 6:30 PM Brief Annual Greenway trail. Costello’s talk will begin at of the Greenway. Meeting 4:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 25 Minard St., in Fillmore. Schedule for the Afternoon Costello’s program will be preceded by a Best way to reach the According to Costello, “Ever since I saw 2:00 p.m. guided walk on a Fillmore area church parking lot Kinzua Viaduct in nearby Pennsylvania I section of Greenway trail, led by Ron have had a strong interest in bridges, Abraham of Rockville. Those participating Enter the Wide Awake specifically railroad bridges.” He is now in the walk should meet at 2:00 p.m. at the Library parking area from working on the new Portage Viaduct Fillmore United Methodist Church parking Route 19A in Fillmore. The church is in back of setting control points to lay out the bridge lot. piers and anchor bolts and monitoring the library. The library is A dish to pass dinner and brief Friends about .1-mile north of the points for the new bridge. Costello says, “I intersection of Route 19 know that sounds really dull, but it isn’t a annual meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. after and 19A. glamorous job. I just get to see some really Costello’s talk. For more information, cool things!” However, his work allows email fogvg @frontiernet.net or call 585- him to take many pictures of the bridge 476-2354. Inside this Issue construction from his Meet Kristine Uribe, 2 on-site vantage points, Park Manager pictures which will be National Trails Day 3 included in his talk. Celebration Costello is licensed in Big Greenway Changes 4-6 five states and has Greenway Architects worked on projects as 7 diverse as the new OPRHP Hike Series 8 Indianapolis Airport, Whiskey Bridge 9 Phoenix Sky Harbor Culvert Stabilization Airport, and the NYSDOT Who’s on the Trail? 10 Riverbend project in Scenes from the Trail 11 Buffalo. He also owns a small manufacturing Artist rendering of new bridge soon to span the Letchworth Gorge Page 2 Meet Kristine Uribe Manager Greenway boundary in the project area. .Special thanks to the NYSDEC Operations Crew for mowing around trail head gates and mowing Genesee ValleyAt Rockville Greenway Lake, cottage owners have State cleared a path Park along the the trail. Two mowings have been completed. dam and lake inlet, which provides a trail monumented, the Hinsdale volunteers can start working on the one-mile section TEA-21 work has begun on the Allegany County portion of the north of Old Route 16, which contains the remains of Locks 100 Greenway. The Region 9 Greenway crew began work on June and 101. connection around the lake outlet until 1: Eric Blitz, Roy Hale,Salutations! Josh Nickerson and Chris My Brunetto. name is aKristine box culvert can Uribe, be installed and to carry I recently the trail across accepted the outlet. All four are graduates of the Belmont BOCES center. Eric, Roy and Josh have certificatesthe park in Conservation manager and Heavy position New for Hudson: the GeneseeThe Valley DEC Region Greenway. 9 crew dealt with … Equipment, while Chris youhas a certificateknow, in that Building 90 Trades.-mile sliceseveral of beaver paradise flooding problemscurrently between running Route 305 fromand Tibbetts Hill Road. The crew also raked ballast out of the trail Genesee Falls: RochesterThe DEC Region to 9 crewCuba? used an To bewhere honest, it borders I thehadn’t former Conrailheard bed of north this of Tibbetts little Hill gem excavator to clean a section of the canal prism that had silted in, Road. causing water to flow overuntil the trail I appliedand into an adjacentfor the position. Since then I’ve been doing my farmer’s field. The crew also repaired a railroad-era culvert that Hinsdale: Region 9 Real Property staff will be surveying the had separated and developedhomework a large sinkhole. and These have projects come Hinsdale to realize section of what the Greenway an opportunity this fall. Once the Iboundaries have are were also of benefit to the Finger Lakes Trail / North Country Scenic Trail, which followsbeen that sectiongiven. of the Greenway. Hume: The DEC RegionI have 9 crew always cleared theenjoyed ends of a the great outdoors. Yeah, I’m a nature geek, railroad-era stone box culvert that was plugged and causing occasional flooding upstream.and comingThey installed from “Motorized Long Island where undisturbed areas are Vehicles Prohibited” signs at several road crossings in Fillmore to aid DEC Forest Rangersbecoming in enforcing ATVmore laws. like The crewa museum exhibit every day, I learned to also installed a ramp at Dugway Road where the trail grade exceeded the 5% maximumappreciate allowed under everything the Americans with we no longer have. Disabilities Act. I have always worked with the public.Belfast-Caneadea: Whether The DEC it was Region serving 9 crew has clearedat a drive the -through or rental car company, taking trail between Belfast and Oramel, using a chipper to dispose of accident reports for insurance adjusters,the vegetation. bartending,They installed wire dispatchingfencing along the property emergency services, or during the last 15 years working at Watkins Glen State linePark at two doing locations everything where encroachment from issues bathroom existed. Eight cleaning to office manager, I have met a more pairs of gates have been installed, and additional gates are plethora of personalities and havecurrently found being built.myself The crew in installeda myriad ramps atof Lake mishaps. Road One thing is certain, in order to make and Hughes Street, where the trail grade exceeded 5%. They headway in any situation one musttrimmed listen overhanging to understand limbs and mowed alongand thenot previously just react. That is exactly my master plan in Note New cleared sections of the trail as well. guiding theEmail continuing Address creation of this trail. DEC and New York State DOT will be working together on a [email protected] project to stabilize a section of Crawford Creek that is In the past few months, I have threateningmet some both theof Greenway the most and Route dedicated 19 near Oramel. and passionate trail users I have ever encountered. These folks spendRegion countless 9 Real Property hours staff haveadvocating already monumented for their the trail, volunteering to help maintain it, and taking on many hurdles along the way. I know the trail has a long way to go before its completion. It will take time, patience, perseverance and money, lots of money. We have areas that require stabilization, waterways that need crossings, continuous stormGreenway Seedamage a law problem and enforcement the liston isgoesthe provided Greenway?on. by State issue. 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