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Stop Griswold OverDevelopment (SGOD) is a concerned group of
Connecticut citizens seeking to preserve one of
Connecticut's finest natural resources, the Hammonasset
State Park and its adjacent tidal wetlands. Enjoyed by millions of visitors
each year, Hammonasset also serves as the home for
hundreds of species of birds and other animals, including a number of
endangered species.
This public land is threatened with irreparable harm by
real estate developers from New York. They propose to build a
densely packed development of 127 residential units,
mostly row houses and apartment buildings, directly
adjacent to these sensitive tidal wetlands. The
units will be crammed six-per-acre onto the Griswold
Airport site in Madison, many as large as 4000 square
feet. The pollution
generated by this development will markedly damage the
ecology of the salt marshes, at the expense of the plant
and animal species that live there, and further degrade
the Hammonasset River estuary and Long Island Sound.
We
are committed to preventing the destruction of this
precious habitat, which belongs to all of the people of
Connecticut. Once it's gone, it's gone forever.
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