Apparently the pipes will be sunk for the two days of the Regatta and dredging will not take place.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Smooth Sailing?
A little bit of a brouhaha brewing between WLIC and WLYC regarding The Dredge and potential effects on the upcoming Regatta (May 20-21) and the race calendar. Based on the emails going back and forth there might have been more/better communication between the two organizations. Email from Joe (Ennett-WLIC Prez) to Patty (Parker-WLYC Commodore) on the 29th rehashed some of the info from a previous WLIC blurb about The Dredge. Joe mentions a discussion with Ray Staton on 28th of the possibility of relocating the "pipes" to the east side on the weekends (I like this idea...because it is not on the west side...Solomon would probably keep them in the middle). This give me cause to wonder how much advance discussion was had between the two organizations. Not that The Dredge was a secret, discussions have been ongoing with the Board for a long time. And I believe some of the Board members are also WLYC members...so where the disconnect is puzzling.
Apparently the pipes will be sunk for the two days of the Regatta and dredging will not take place.
Apparently the pipes will be sunk for the two days of the Regatta and dredging will not take place.
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First I found this video.
http://www.wisn.com/r-video/27477376/detail.html
Which made me think of this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkAFdjAWyt8#t=5m30s
This video is not from around here but very instructive none-the-less. FF to about 3:00 in this video to see some 'silt'..er..going into a watershed. This is a much worse kind of silt than clay silt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkcjC9UTBn0
If you look in the other parts of the video, you will see silt fences (behind the manhole), hay to control erosion, etc. Not working too well is it. This type of thing can also happen underground or in other ways that it cannot be seen or even just be caused by operator error or clogs in the sewer system, root infiltration, etc..etc...
So if you are measuring uh..turbidity in the watersheds or the lake..you might think it is coming from topsoil erosion when it could be coming from a much worse place.
It could be 'turd-bidity'(TM?)...
If you don't have the storm water flowing through the storm sewers like it should, it has to go somewhere. If it goes through the above ground watersheds, it will increase top-soil erosion too.
The more you know...
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