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Waveny Park, New Canaan, Connecticut. – My daily walk: 2028 On my walk today I came across some beautiful sights. A few other sights too, but we’ll get to that. And yes, conservatively speaking, I’ve walked the Waveny trails 2028 times in the past decade or so.

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What is going on in Waveny? Are they planning a huge construction project in the middle of the woods? In a recent post we saw a dump truck driving down the jogging path. Today I came upon a new demolition project; a 20′ wide swath cut into the forest. I missed the news that they [...]

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Waveny had a field, several acres wide, of tall grasses and teaming with wildlife. A few years ago a truck came and delivered a pile of concrete debris, followed by piles of asphalt debris and then dirt at the far end. Today there are no more fields. There is only construction storage and bare earth, [...]

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“As the chains get longer, they get heavier.” Since the liquid ‘petroleum’ contains aliphatic hydrocarbons they can be separated out by distillation. The longest (heaviest) carbon chains attached to hydrogen in crude oil form solids. Just slightly heavier than tar, asphaltic bitumen is what we’ll be driving on here at Waveny for a while to [...]

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What were the instructions? Make the path through Waveny wide enough for a truck to drive freely? …Why?

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Here are some pictures of the pool construction:

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Here is a quick gallery of photos taken where the Town proposes to build a new Board of Education building. I know a few squirrels, some birds and these trees aren’t going to complain when they bulldoze this area but I can see the new structure will come at a cost much higher than a [...]

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