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Warwick has 33 miles of shoreline and God knows how many miles of upstream locations subject to phragmites strangling. On Greenwich Bay there are at least ten locations where this is a problem. Now the city wants to spend $825,000 on one small site on Buckeye Brook to pull the phragmites with absolutely no plan to maintain the location afterward. If you don't maintain the site, the phragmites will come right back. And there will be another bill for even more than $825,000. This is going to cost millions and then other groups will show up with phragmites problems of their own. Pretty soon half the of the City budget will be to pull phragmites.

Mr. Corrente "the Taxpayers Mayor" points out that in the old days you just pointed the bulldozer at it. But he does not tell you that heavy equipment has sunk almost out of sight in that swamp. He should be more interested in the long tail of maintenance cost associated with this project and less with spending taxpayer money to protect waterfront property of more-wealthy-than-some Warwick taxpayers.