$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