High Winds Followed by Big Bucks
Avalon beaches are supposed to get 180,000 cubic yards of sand this week.
Nice timing.
The wind is whistling a million miles an hour right now. At least it sounds like it. It’s so bad, even the county zoo is closed. The animals refused to leave their homes and entertain visitors.
This nor’easter presumably is eroding beaches, but I’m not going out to look.
It will be followed by costly beach replenishment projects paid for by the federal, state and local governments.
Or, more accurately, to be paid for by taxpayers.
There are arguments to be made in favor, and against.
What’s yours?
posted by Joe Zelnik @ 11:19 AM
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2 Comments:
Against.
But government policies are not based on common sense or natural sense (what is apparent in nature), only on money "sense."
At the end of the day, it always comes down to the Almighty Dollar. Our elected officials are listening to the Tourism Industry, the Building and Development industries. And so the money (your money and my money) just keeps washing out to sea. Sensible? Nah. But people are making money, and that's all that counts.
With Global Climate Change becoming more and more an accepted reality, the days of beach replenishment may be nearing an end. Now may be the time to start planning for and constructing more seawalls...the permanance of which would be much more cost efficient.
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