$2M For Cleaning up the DUMP?

 I realize that the dump leaking and giving up its treasures is a problem for the town, but just building a revetment that will only last twenty years and then need replacing again is not to my mind, a very fiduciarily responsible way to spend that kind of money on a temporary fix!

Just what are we going to do with all that junk that is worming its way out of the ground? Well apparently we are not going to get it off the Island! If I read that article in the local paper correctly, we are just going to dig it up and move it to another location on the same piece of property. How dumb is that? So now all my grandchildren are going to be looking at subsidizing  another move of the same junk in the future!

Just what are the priorities of this town council when it comes to saving the dunes on the east beach and the keeping of the junk from crawling out of the ground and getting into the ocean  Which one takes precedence ? Which is the most likely to to happen first, to the huge determent of the town?

I have  mentioned this before in another forum, that if the town really wants to do something to forestall the disaster to the this burg that would occur if we were to get another Storm Sandy or one or two of even worse destructive power, I think the following would be the best course of action to follow. It would last for at least one hundred years. It is this:

Take all the stones, rocks, boulders, etc. that the State put put up against the dunes and roll them all out onto the beach. Bring in a company that would drive into the sand, pieces of thick steel bulkhead material of at least sixty foot length and pound them into the ground leaving about ten feet sticking out. Then roll back all those boulders along with however many more were needed to provide a good solid eight to ten foot thick buffer in front of those steel bulkhead plates. Fill-in behind them with rocks and clean fill. Leave a space of about ten to twelve feet from the edge of the road to the bulkhead and fill it with concrete to create a promenade along side the road for walkers and bicyclists.  Start as close to the Surf Hotel as would be deemed necessary and continue to the north to at least just past the State/Town beach.

I would think that $2M would advance the bulkhead  project to get pretty close to there! Going past the Beach House would entail leaving a small gap where the windmill turbine cable comes ashore.

When we get to that point, then would be the time to go pissing up a rope trying to mitigate the whole dump farce!  Bringing in a bunch of granite boulders and dropping them in front of the oozing junk would soon see them falling into the undermined sand from wind and tide, and the ooze would continue on it's  way into the ocean. You have to have something to stop the undermining of what ever you put in front of your bulkhead, and undermining to a depth of forty feet is going to probably take a few hundred years at least.

Anybody got another solution that is reasonable? Anyone?

TIFN

  

IS IT SPRING YET?

I can't really remember the last time we had such a cold Spring for so long into April. But with my memory being what it is, it was probably just last year! Anyway I am sick to death of the damned cold weather.

Still getting all the plots tuned up and ready for the planting, which I hope to commence shortly. I have quite a few things going on in the High Tunnel.  I have 16 Bell pepper plants up about a foot and 18 leaves. Swiss chard is about a foot high and being eaten already. Spinach, Rhubarb Chard, Kohlrabi, and Romain lettuce are all up and doing well.

My 20' row of high yielding eating peas are about a foot up the large long trellis. Hope they will climb up to about head high. Have a bunch of basil plants in the House Green House That will be planted in front of the peas. I also have about sixty Marigold and sixty Nasturtiums plants to be interspersed among the different vegetables to help keep the damned bugs away.  I also plant Mustard plants among some others to help with the bug chasing.

We have eight Snow Crown Cauliflower. This early bunch are for summer eating, and about twenty five cabbage plants for making Sauerkraut later on, as well as a few just to eat over the summer, and a few to store for the winter in the root cellar.

Now I mean to tell you, keeping those GD cabbage loopers out of them is a chore and a never ending job! I don't use chemical pesticides on my plants. Mostly Bt and pyrethrin dust. But the absolute surest way to get rid of those loopers is to take a badminton racket and turn them into a white cloud of dust with one stroke, IF you can hit them!!!   My granddaughter Dakota does an admirable  job of disposing of them. I suppose the fifty cent bounty on them helps to incentivize  her too!

I noticed again today that there a couple of more of the accursed signs up along the roads. I would like to know just who the hell it was that initiated this, "supposed study", who was it done by and just who paid for it? All unanswered questions. Was this done by one of our local boards/commissions? Or was it some State entity. What I think we need is for the 'sign vigilantes' to ride again!


I am posting these things on my Facebook page, but am not sure how many folks see it so I am going to put the address of this blog right here so you may log in directly if you wish to make a comment! And it is: IslandVoiceII@blogspot.com.

SO I will be very happy to hear from you, and we can talk about any subject that interest you as related to BI and it's environs! Anyone who is interested in gardening and has seen what I am doing at my place, please come on over and we can talk about it. The one thing I WON"T be doing anymore is tilling up the ground to plant! Come on over or write a note right here, and I'll start bending your ear!

TIFN

A Blight on the Landscape!

Went out for a Sunday afternoon ride around the Island  about three weeks ago. Not an unusual thing, but this time we noticed that there were a few new traffic signs having been put up. It was a cause of some wonderment as to why in these places, and we thought no more about it till the ensuing Sunday arrived.

As we progressed around the Island we discovered a plethora of new sign sproutings! All over the damned place!  Not just one or two,  but on one curve/corner alone there were nine individual  signs to tell the unwary driver just how to negotiate this bend in the road! Well we began to have a few discussions as to why all of a sudden the influx of obtrusive signs.

We kept on talking about them as we started our third subsequent Sunday trip around the Island, only to find that there had been even more of these obnoxious yellow beacons of portending doom sprouting up like unwanted dandelions of toad stools! We are now totally infested with the damned things1

I would like to know WHO decided all these signs had to be put up on virtually every corner or curve and every hill, up an down the length of the Island. Was this just on the whim of some single person or group in the town? Or was it all at the behest of  the infamous DOT?

It looks like some traffic engineer came out here for a weekend and saw all these totally dangerous curves,  bends, and steep inclines and was aghast that they were not "signed up"!

I would also like to know just how in the hell all we local inhabitants managed to survive out here all these years, traveling at the maximum allowed speed of 25 MPH,  and have not all wound up in the ditches and bushes! Traveling at 40-50 MPH or more, might  cause one to inhabit those said bushes and ditches, and it has happened on occasion.

So were these signs then inflicted on us solely to warn tourists of the dangers of rounding these bends? If you are driving at 25 MPH on these roads, around all these sharp curves and mountainous inclines, and you don't have the mental processes that would allow you the reaction time to navigate said curves, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE A DRIVERS LICENSE!  You could probably have a cat nap from the time you saw the curve coming to the time you had to start turning the wheel!

So I  would like to start a letter writing campaign to our Town Council to get the damned, ugly, and way too numerous things removed from the roads! Hell you can't see the weeds along the road for the big yellow signs blocking the view!

TIFN