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Anyone else notice our spiffy beach harvester sitting while a tractor and rake clean the beach?
How about someone from the city providing the number of hours of use for this year?
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Anyone else notice our spiffy beach harvester sitting while a tractor and rake clean the beach?
How about someone from the city providing the number of hours of use for this year?
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Mike @ KnowingNewport (Registrierter Benutzer)
Ann Pamela (Gast)
Jack (Gast)
Dave (Gast)
I noticed on Newport Now
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowingNewport/messages?o=1)
that Jo Eva Gaines (on Aug 4) sees the harvester working early every morning from her window.
Even as it's been broken for the last couple weeks? There's also a post there by Kate Leonard who NOW sees the folly of the purchase. Good luck recouping our investment.
Jack (Gast)
BB (Gast)
Dave (Gast)
Got to wonder if BB works either for the city or for Newport-Now. Both are unabashed cheerleaders for this $350K boondoggle. Uses for the collected seaweed. Ok BB I'll bite, the initial plan was to sell it to our local island farmers for fertilizer and to spread on the fields. Was this plan vetted to the farmers? Did they have a place to store their "harvest", did they have a means of disposing of the seaweed before they purchased their ridiculous machine? What did they do with the seaweed before the arrival of the miraculous "harvester"? Likely a dumpster or a pile on the beach.
Our city council is wedded to asinine and untested ideas that reek of incompetence and stupidity. The UV system at the end of the beach is another long term expense that likely WILL NOT WORK. The problem is E. coli, and if you do a little research you'll find that this comes from human feces. Not animals, not roads, human waste. Eliminate the source, eliminate the bacterial problem. AND, you will find that the beach has not met standards for much of this summer, while you've been swimming in it, thanks again to our local cheerleading media for not exposing this fact.
Constructive ideas work for concepts that have a chance of succeeding, not for boondoggles.
Barry Botelho (Gast)
BB
McJack (Registrierter Benutzer)
Geschlossen Newport Public Services (Verifizierter Beamter)