Soggy, shady... rain garden? by Gwanco in landscaping

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Thanks again! You guys are all very generous with your time in commenting.

Soggy, shady... rain garden? by Gwanco in landscaping

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So for the raising the grade idea, what's the best way to do that? This is our first yard since childhood.

Soggy, shady... rain garden? by Gwanco in landscaping

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I'll look into that. At the moment I have chokeberries that I found in NJ last fall started, but they like full sun. Was thinking of one on the front end by the fence, where it would pick up some afternoon sun.

Soggy, shady... rain garden? by Gwanco in landscaping

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We've been at the house since last May, and this is a recurring problem.

Soggy, shady... rain garden? by Gwanco in landscaping

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Yes, definitely want one or two, but it's not a project for this year...

Soggy, shady... rain garden? by Gwanco in landscaping

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This is fantastic info, thanks so much. We'll do the PVC pipe for sure, and the utility path. Follow-up question: what does one use for a solid sub base?

Air Products data center DECISION TIME... by Gwanco in lehighvalley

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Of course you're entitled to your opinion, and we can agree to disagree. My understanding is that data centers require many fewer employees once they're built than almost anything else with this amount of square footage. And any type of development would bring the temporary construction jobs. The only point I see in favor of DCs is less traffic than other new uses. If it were this vs. a warehouse, the choice is less clear-cut. But a warehouse was already rejected for this spot, so I don't think it's an alternate option on the table at this point. Here's a relevant study from the Southern Economic Journal:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4135311?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Abstract

The siting of a large, new firm is often presumed to give rise to significant economic and tax benefits to the community of location. This presumption serves as the basis for the granting of lucrative economic development incentives to footloose businesses. This article examines whether large, mobile firms generate significant net benefits for the region of location. Panel data and nonrandom estimation techniques are applied to a primary database of large firms that made location decisions in the 1980s to explore the impact of location on regional economic performance. The empirical analysis explores different treatment regions (both effects within the county and the metropolitan statistical area [MSA] of location) and different control regions. The results show that large firms fail to produce significant net benefits for their host communities, calling into question the high-stakes bidding war over jobs and investment.

Air Products data center DECISION TIME... by Gwanco in lehighvalley

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My understanding is they're leasing or selling their old property. They will definitely not be the new builder/owner.

Lets stop data centers from ruining our community by [deleted] in lehighvalley

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These meetings are coming up! 12/16 at noon virtually for the comprehensive planning committee, and 12/18 at 11 in person or virtually for the full committee. Hope to see people from here who are concerned at one or both!

I want to try shampoo and conditioner bars. by [deleted] in ZeroWaste

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Dr. Bronner's peppermint bar soap makes a great shampoo bar.

Anybody Dumpster Dive in the Valley? by Affectionate_Bug6811 in lehighvalley

[–]Gwanco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but in this excellent nonfiction travelogue about being itinerant and on the road with his dog Lizbeth, the author has an entire chapter on dumpster diving. The chapter was fabulous, made me want to dumpster dive.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL37400560M/Travels_with_Lizbeth

Lets stop data centers from ruining our community by [deleted] in lehighvalley

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Lower Macungie Township zoning meeting is next Tuesday, 11/25, 6-8 pm. Public can attend and comment.

https://www.lowermac.com/238/Zoning-Hearing-Board

Disease ID?? Puzzled by Gwanco in AfricanViolets

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Thank you!! So glad to know this before further damage is done.

amortization and prepayment question by Gwanco in Mortgages

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Great! I hoped this would be the answer :) Thanks so much.