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If this canal is allowed to fall into a deep state of disrepair, it is likely that this treasure will be lost forever. I ask for your help and participation.
If your government representatives receive a strong showing of support, they will not support closure of the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. This canal will celebrate it’s 200th anniversary in 2005. Closure now would be terrible!
PLAN OF ACTION: Write AND Call your representative today. Have your wife/husband do exactly the same. Contact any party that is interested in keeping this waterway open and ask them to do the same. The two links below will help you determine whom your representative is for your district.
PLEASE JOIN US:
1. Contact your Congressmen asking for “additional appropriations of $600,000 in the 2006 budget for the Norfolk District, US Army Corps of Engineers, for continued operation of the Dismal Swamp Canal locks and waterway as part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.”
2. Contact the Chairmen of the following Congressional Subcommittees with the same request:
Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Water Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), Chairman PH: 202.224.6621 ~ FX: 202.228.0900 ~ Email: http://domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactform.cfm
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Ranking Minority Member PH: 202.224.3542 ~ FX: 202.224.7327 ~ Email: http://reid.senate.gov/email_form.cfm
House Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Rep. David Hobson (R-OH), Chairman PH: 202.225.4324 ~ FX: 202.225.1984 ~ Email: http://www.house.gov/hobson/formmail.htm
Rep. Peter J. Visclosky (D-IN), Ranking Member) PH: 202.225.2461 ~ FX: 202.225.2493 ~ Email: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Rep. John Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), Chairman PH: 202.225.5435 ~ FX: 202.225.6440 ~ Email: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Ranking Minority Member) PH: 202.225.8885 ~ FX: 202.226.1477 ~ Email: http://www.house.gov/ebjohnson/contact_eb/index.shtml
OTHER ACTION YOU CAN TAKE:
CLICK HERE To find your Representative (U.S. House)
CLICK HERE To find your Senator
Time is of the essence! Letters are delayed in Washington! Send a FAX and Call your representative. Email is not always effective!
OTHER ACTION TO TAKE: Subcommittee on Energy and water Development: These Representatives can appropriate more funding. Write to all of them!
David L. Hobson, OH-R Chairman Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, NJ –R Peter J. Visclosky, IN D Ranking Member
CLICK HERE for the Atlantic Intracostal Waterway Association
Here is a quick list for the State of North Carolina: Congress points of contact for N.C.
NC Sen. John Edwards: http://edwards.senate.gov/mailform.html PHONE: 202.224.3154; FAX: 202.228.1374
NC Sen. Elizabeth Dole: (no email) PHONE: 202.224.6342; FAX: 202.224.1100
NC Congressman Walter Jones, Jr.: http://jones.house.gov/html/contact_email.html PHONE: 202.225.3415; FAX: 202.225.3286
NC Congressman Frank Ballance: http://ballance.house.gov/HoR/NC01/English/Contact+Us/Contact+Form.htm PHONE: 202.225.3101; FAX: 202.225.3354
NC CONGRESSMAN BOB ETHERIDGE: http://www.house.gov/etheridge/contactbob.htm PHONE: 202.225.4531; FAX: 202.225.5662
A new Congressional Waterway Caucus will be announced shortly, chaired by Congressman Mike McIntyre of Wilmington. Contact Congressman McIntyre with your concerns: CONGRESSMAN MIKE McINTYRE, CHAIRMAN Phone: 202.225.2731 Fax: 202.225.5773 EMAIL: http://www.house.gov/htbin/wrep_findrep
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TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY! DO NOT DELAY! Funding Cuts affect nearly all of the Intracoastal Waterway |
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Hurricane Isabel!
See your tax dollars at work keeping the Dismal Swamp Canal open. Click on photo above! |