He planned to install a Skystream wind turbine in his front yard at a cost of $7,500, lowered from $20,000 after government subsidies for alternative energy.
Until the Red Hook plant, one of the newest and smallest of New York's 14 water treatment plants, was completed in 1988 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard at a cost of $444 million, the nearby neighborhoods' 60 million gallons of waste water a day were merely filtered through a screen and discharged.
This provision calls for, among other things, the completion of a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico and the deployment of up to 20,000 more border agents, creating a huge militarized zone right in our own back yard at a cost of $46 billion dollars.
Dramatist and architect John Vanbrugh saw this as an opportunity to break the duopoly of the patent theatres, and in 1703 he acquired a former stable yard, at a cost of £2000, for the construction of a new theatre on the Haymarket.
The combined projects, he said, would excavate 24,000 cubic yards of sediment, slightly more than half of it from lab grounds, at a cost of about $11.5 million.
"One hundred yards a month, at a cost of hundreds of lives.
The largest project, in Fire Island Pines, added 500,000 cubic yards of sand at a cost to property owners of more than $3 million.
The first Wesleyan chapel was built in 1814 in a small yard off Main Street at a cost of £331 10s; the present Methodist church is in Southey Street.
It is now paying a price for not understanding that soft-power alone will not make it a global power and inaction, the unwillingness to take its security, its own back yard seriously comes at a cost.
The E.P.A.'s enormous cleanup included the excavation of 207,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil, at a cost of $66 million, and 13,500 cubic yards of contaminated sediments, at a cost of $2.2 million.
