Boondoggles
to make the mind boggle
from
The Army Corps Of Engineers
Hustling/Promoting/Pushing - is SELF
serving - a FUNCTION of Ignorance and GREED !
Doctors did this with Smoking:
May
10, 2014 http://curecancer73-don.blogspot.com/?view=mosaic
You ALL will remember ACE doing this with the Everglades
--Designed to replace a
meandering 90-mile (140 km) river with a 52-mile (84 km) channel, the canal was
completed in 1971 and cost $29 million. They had it all-----studies, opinions,
beliefs, points-of-view, attitudes, positions, desire to be right, egos, greed,
self serving, brainwashing/marketing & related - which equals quite a
formula for frustration, ALL emanating from politically-driven ACE. They know everything, just ask them !
Estimated
cost to repair Everglades from ACE Disaster - Wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Everglades
"It would take 30 years and cost $7.8 billion to restore/complete.
Though the plan was passed into law in 2000, it has been compromised by
politics & funding problems."
ACE had many "studies" etc. (that state what ACE wants, or those
creating the studies will not do any more studies)
on The FL. Everglades Boondoggle !
Comments heard most recently (similar to the Everglades comments
when destroying our Glades), "We won't do harm to Siesta sands". Well, ACE has stated these types of
assurances all over the country and MADE stunning/expensive disasters,
repeatedly (list is too long for this letter).
Search the internet & you will find similar comments during the disastrous
Everglades annihilation !
We the TAXPAYERS DEMAND that ACE
terminate these boondoggles, specifically the disastrous concept of dredging
1.1million cubic yards of sand from Big Pass and constructing three groins.
Local
recent data that ACE is seemingly IGNORANT of :
By 1960, Midnight
Pass had been in about the same place for a while -- say, 20 years or so. To
place things historically: Mote
Marine Laboratory Mote Marine Laboratory (and
Aquarium) is
a not-for-profit research and educational institution with an aquarium open to
the public 365 days a year. Founded by Dr. Eugenie Clark in 1955 in Cape Haze,
Florida, the early years of the laboratory specialized in shark research.
IMPORTANT: See INTEROFFICE MEMO to: Board of County Commissioners date March 24, 2005 Board Assignment #05032 - Status of Beach Erosion and Nourishment - SHORELINE EROSION AND COASTAL ARMORING. 11 Pages with Photos
Why Are Hard Structures Bad?
· http://www.ericksonconsultingengineers.com/coastal-engineering-news.php
Erickson Consulting Engineers Marks Its 10-Year Milestone
January 2011 Karyn M. Erickson, MS, PE, D CE, President, is pleased to announce that Erickson Consulting
Engineers, Inc., of Sarasota, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and success in providing coastal, civil and
environmental engineering services.
· http://www.4sarasotahomes.com/seawalls.htm
Other coastal states have banned sea walls.
SARASOTA COUNTY -- A wall is going up along the coast, one made of concrete, steel, or rock and designed to protect homes built along the shore from falling into the Gulf of Mexico.
Increased erosion
caused by sea walls means the structures eventually jut into the sea,
preventing beachgoers from walking unimpeded along the coast, a right so
fundamental to Floridians that it's written into state law.
· http://honorsph.startlogic.com/tvn/home/midnightpass/Open%20Midnight%20Pass/Journal/CC419C37-FA7A-4813-A5F3-6358FCBC2591.html
Flood ...www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477280/posts-Free Republic Loading..Sep 2, 2005
-The bill would shovel $17 billion at the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control.
Among these projects is a $2.7 billion boondoggle on the ...
· In the pantheon of dumb Army Corps of Engineers boondoggles, a $112 million flood-control scheme in Missouri's southeast bootheel ranks http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1663903,00.html
You and the ACE will NOT do any groins in Sarasota, FL!
Florida's Everglades, a Disaster Waiting to
Happen
By Michael
Grunwald Nov 2007 Despite a $10 billion rescue
plan, the Everglades are a disaster waiting to happen.
PowerPoint Presentation
www.evergladesfoundation.org/.../pollution-in-fl...
Everglades Foundation Sep 9, 2013 - Everglades Foundation ... Pollution in Florida's Lake Okeechobee swells to near-disaster levels ... The Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the dikes around the lake and the flow of water out
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Senator Marco Rubio silent on US Army Corps of Engineers ...
eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/.../senator-marco-rubio-silent-on-us-army.ht...
1 day ago - The US Army Corps of Engineers dodged a bullet this week, and the agency knows it. ... Piece of the massive puzzle -- the Central Everglades Planning Project-is meant to .. than 24 hours, could have created a disaster for South Florida had it been positioned only a .Here are some pictures sent
Corps wants more time on Everglades project report - Marco ...
www.marconews.com/.../corps-wants-more-time-on-everglades-project/
Apr 23, 2014 - (AP) — An internal review board at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants more time to finalize a report on an Everglades restoration project with a pressing... Summer-proof your Florida home to avoid worry, disaster Published 4/15/2006 at 12:00 a.m. .. Currently; 36-Hour; Your Photos.
Army Corps delays key Everglades restoration project News ...
www.news.nom.co/army-corps-delays-key-everglades-9120746-news/
Apr 22, 2014 - Blood Moon Photos ... Everglades restoration postponed by U.S. Army Corps: Everglades restoration postponed by U.S. ... They differ from army reserves who are activated only during such times as war or natural disasters.
..... Click the link for more information. had just moved
to the south end of Siesta Key, and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers was starting to dredge the Intracoastal Waterway c.3,000 mi (4,827 km) long, partly natural,
partly artificial, providing sheltered passage for commercial and leisure boats
along the U.S. Atlantic coast from Boston, Mass. to Key West, S Fla.
..... Click the link for
more information..
Midnight Pass was not widened or deepened as part of the Intracoastal project, although
much of the rest of the bay bottom was scraped or dynamited to make the bay
deep enough for commercial barges to carry goods to Southwest
Florida Southwest Florida is a region of Florida located
along its gulf coast, south of the Tampa Bay area, west of Lake Okeechobee and
mostly north of the Everglades. It consists of five coastal counties from
Manatee County south to Collier County, although it sometimes is considered to
..... Click the link for more information. from faraway
ports.
When the dredges moved on, Midnight Pass began to move to the north. It didn't
happen overnight, but by the mid-1970s, folks began to talk about the fate of
the inlet. It was much narrower than it once was, and it was on the move.
Seawalls,
groins, jetties and other shoreline stabilization structures have had tremendous
impacts on our nation's beaches. Shoreline structures are built to
alter the effects of ocean waves, currents and sand movement. They are usually
built to "protect" buildings that were built on a beach that is
losing sand. Sometimes they are built to redirect rivers and streams. Other times they are
constructed to shelter boats in calm water. In many cases, seawalls, jetties,
breakwaters and groins have caused DOWN COAST erosion problems with
associated costs that have greatly exceeded the construction cost of the
structure. ( If I
am not mistaken, Siesta Key is located
"down coast " from Longboat and Lido keys, so this project could be a
disaster for Siesta Key.)
Every
surfrider knows that there are groins and jetties that have incidentally
improved wave riding. However, in many other areas shoreline construction has
ruined wildlife habitat, destroyed surfing waves and caused beaches to erode.
As beach lovers and environmentalists, we need to understand the consequences
of shoreline structures so that we may be able to effectively influence
decisions on the impacts, placement or necessity of these structures. As an
environmental group committed to maintaining the natural shoreline and beach
equilibrium, we are usually opposed to construction that will disrupt the
balance of forces that shape our coastline.
Part of what we’ve
done comes from ignorance. We’re just now
realizing we all live downstream from somebody or something, and what we flush
down our toilet doesn’t magically disappear but all-too-often pops up as
somebody else’s problem. But most of our historical environmental
disregard is spurred by arrogance. We
have simply ignored the tropical delights of Southwest Florida except where it
will help us turn a buck from a tourist or a prospective new homebuyer.
Look around. When the
big storm of the early 1920s destroyed the bayfront of the quaint fishing
village of Sarasota, did we learn from our mistake and build smarter? No, we
began to dredge and fill the waterfront, spelling doom to Sarasota’s fishing
industry and starting the land boom of the 1920s.
Probably the best
example of officialdom’s arrogance of the environment is the story of Midnight
Pass, “celebrating” its 30th closure anniversary this month.
The inlet between
Siesta and Casey Key was the most controversial environmental issue in town in
the early 1980s. The story of what happened to Midnight Pass is one of the most
bizarre environmental dramas in recent history, pitting the property
“rights” of two prominent Sarasotans against the environmental good of an
entire region.
IMPORTANT: See INTEROFFICE MEMO to: Board of County Commissioners date March 24, 2005 Board Assignment #05032 - Status of Beach Erosion and Nourishment - SHORELINE EROSION AND COASTAL ARMORING. 11 Pages with Photos
Why Are Hard Structures Bad?
· http://www.ericksonconsultingengineers.com/coastal-engineering-news.php
Erickson Consulting Engineers Marks Its 10-Year Milestone
January 2011 Karyn M. Erickson, MS, PE, D CE, President, is pleased to announce that Erickson Consulting
Engineers, Inc., of Sarasota, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and success in providing coastal, civil and
environmental engineering services.
· http://www.4sarasotahomes.com/seawalls.htm
Other coastal states have banned sea walls.
SARASOTA COUNTY -- A wall is going up along the coast, one made of concrete, steel, or rock and designed to protect homes built along the shore from falling into the Gulf of Mexico.
Sea walls protect property threatened by an eroding beach. But they come
with an enormous environmental price tag: increased erosion, blocked beach
access, and destroyed turtle nesting.
· http://honorsph.startlogic.com/tvn/home/midnightpass/Open%20Midnight%20Pass/Journal/CC419C37-FA7A-4813-A5F3-6358FCBC2591.html
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A
groin is built perpendicular to the coast and works similar to the
way a jetty works. But groins are usually built on straight stretches of
beach – not near inlets or channels. They are often built in a series of
parallel structures on one section of beach and can be made of wood,
concrete, steel, or stone.
- A
sea wall, as the name suggests, is a wall built along the coast
between the land and the ocean. Sea walls are typically made of concrete
or stone and can be very large structures.
- http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-recent/6374
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While hard structures can protect beach homes and other buildings threatened by erosion, they’ve been criticized for causing increased erosion further down the beach. Both jetties and groins, for example, act like dams to physically stop the movement of sand. They work by preventing longshore drift from washing sediment down the coast. As a result, they cause a buildup of sand on the side protected by the structure — which is precisely what they’re intended to do. But areas further downstream on the coast are cut off from natural longshore drift by these barrier-like structures. No longer replenished by the sand that usually feeds them, these areas experience worsened erosion.
Historically, North Carolina has tried to avoid the problems
than can be brought on by the use of hard structures to control erosion. In
1985, the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission (CRC), a policy-making
body for the coastal management program, studied the effects of hard structures
on beaches in other states. The CRC
concluded that the potential negative effects of such structures could cause
irreversible damage to North Carolina’s beaches. As a result, the CRC
recommended banning the construction of hard structures to protect buildings at
the coast. The ban made exceptions for protecting historic buildings that could
not be moved and for maintaining important waterways needed for navigation. The hard structures ban, while not an
official law, existed in practice for 15 years before it was upheld in court in
a 2000 case. In 2003, the NC state legislature voted unanimously to formally
adopt the hard structures ban as law: With no dissenting votes, the legislature
banned the construction of new, permanent erosion control structures at the
North Carolina coast. In 2007, a group of
more than 40 coastal geologists issued a statement urging North Carolina to
continue its policy of banning hard structures. The scientists argued that
without it, the state’s coastline would suffer from worsening erosion up and
down the coast.
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/videticp/beach_drift.htm
The pier or
groin is interfering with the movement of sediment down current. As sand
moves south, it is trapped by the groin. As a result, sand accumulates on
the north side of the structure, but on the south side sand continues to move
south. However, sand that would normally replace sediment eroding away to
the south of the groin is trapped on the north side of the structure. Consequently,
erosion causes the sediment or beach to be lost on the south side of the
groin. In situation
"The
United States Army Corps of Engineers is a U.S. federal agency under the
Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 36,500 civilian
and military personnel, making it one of the ... " Wikipedia
MANY Media
articles of the Stunning Incompetence of Army Corps of Engineers:
·
After
Birds Point: The Army Corps’ Missouri Floodway Boondoggle-http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/06/after-birds-point-the-army-corps-missouri-floodway-boondoggle/
·
NY Times Calls Army Corps of Engineers $2.7 Billion Flood ...www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477280/posts-Free Republic Loading..Sep 2, 2005
-The bill would shovel $17 billion at the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control.
Among these projects is a $2.7 billion boondoggle on the ...
· In the pantheon of dumb Army Corps of Engineers boondoggles, a $112 million flood-control scheme in Missouri's southeast bootheel ranks http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1663903,00.html
·
Boondoggles to make the mind boggle: Hard corps | The ...www.economist.com/node/1193660 The
Economist...Boondoggles to make the mind boggle. After two centuries, maybe it's time to reform the Army Corps of Engineers.
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Rotten to the Corps: Public Reviews Targeted in New Bill ...switchboard.nrdc.org/.../rotten_to_the...Corps
Natural Resources Defense Council ...Mar 20, 2013 - The Army Corps of Engineers has, at
best, a checkered past when it comes to project designs that harm the
environment. "Boondoggle" is ...
·
Feb.
15, 2013 Programs: Transportation
& Infrastructure While Washington is wringing its hands about
the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is
digging taxpayers even deeper into debt by pushing a smorgasbord of wasteful
dinosaur projects. Exhibit A:
Instead of prioritizing funding on the most economically justified and
critically important projects, the Corps is reviving ancient duds like the New
Madrid Floodway/St. John’s Bayou project. The New Madrid floodway is an old
Mississippi river channel in Missouri’s boot heel. Levees surround the
floodway, except for a small gap at the downstream end (near New Madrid, Missouri).
When river levels get high enough to threaten flooding in Cairo, Il and other
cities upstream the Corps “operates” the floodway by blowing up parts of the
levee, sending millions of gallons of floodwaters across the sparsely populated
farm land in the floodway—preventing flooding in Cairo. The water returns
back to the river through the gap.
As such as this, sand must be added on the down current side of the
groin or transferred from the up current to the down current side of the
structure in order to maintain the beach there. Owners of beach front
property sometimes build groins to preserve their beach. As may now be
apparent, protection of one property with groins will cause
down current neighbors to have beach erosion problems. If the
movement of sediment is halted, down current areas will be deprived of sediment
and erosion will result unless “corrective action” (the addition of yet more
structures or beach nourishment) is taken. As you can see, shorelines
are dynamic, and that results in serious problems when people attempt to
stabilize the shoreline with engineered structures without considering the
consequences to neighboring properties.
Milan
Mora, project manager was quoted: I want
to make sure what we're doing is right. I don't want to be the one that
destroys Siesta Key." Well, take a
look at the history of groins (along with North Carolina's court approved) ban and actual experience and WAKE UP!!!
Project
Manager Milan Mora, City Engineer Alex
DavisShaw , etc.
Creating
the MANY highly expensive disasters that the ACE has dumped on the Taxpayers is
Simply ANOTHER example of Big Government Over Reach !
This
November 2014 we ALL must get rid of, ANY & ALL, that support this Big
Government Overreach Cancer !
There
is "What we know". There is "What we don't know".
PROBLEM - There is "What we don't
know, that we don't know".
Throw in opinions,
beliefs, points-of-view, attitudes, positions, desire to be right, egos, greed,
self serving, sophisticated brainwashing, marketing and related - then you
have quite a formula for frustration.
Problem is worldwide AND specifically
concentrated in Big Government. Problems
permeate politically driven Army Corps of Engineers
Florida's Everglades, a Disaster Waiting to
Happen
By Michael
Grunwald Nov 2007 Despite a $10 billion rescue
plan, the Everglades are a disaster waiting to happen.
This
document is a personal outline of information
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REMEMBER KATRINA - Another Army Corps Disaster !
www.evergladesfoundation.org/.../pollution-in-fl...
Everglades Foundation Sep 9, 2013 - Everglades Foundation ... Pollution in Florida's Lake Okeechobee swells to near-disaster levels ... The Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the dikes around the lake and the flow of water out
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Senator Marco Rubio silent on US Army Corps of Engineers ...
eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/.../senator-marco-rubio-silent-on-us-army.ht...
1 day ago - The US Army Corps of Engineers dodged a bullet this week, and the agency knows it. ... Piece of the massive puzzle -- the Central Everglades Planning Project-is meant to .. than 24 hours, could have created a disaster for South Florida had it been positioned only a .Here are some pictures sent
Corps wants more time on Everglades project report - Marco ...
www.marconews.com/.../corps-wants-more-time-on-everglades-project/
Apr 23, 2014 - (AP) — An internal review board at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants more time to finalize a report on an Everglades restoration project with a pressing... Summer-proof your Florida home to avoid worry, disaster Published 4/15/2006 at 12:00 a.m. .. Currently; 36-Hour; Your Photos.
Army Corps delays key Everglades restoration project News ...
www.news.nom.co/army-corps-delays-key-everglades-9120746-news/
Apr 22, 2014 - Blood Moon Photos ... Everglades restoration postponed by U.S. Army Corps: Everglades restoration postponed by U.S. ... They differ from army reserves who are activated only during such times as war or natural disasters.
