As some of you may remember I have been maintaining the nav aids in
the Estero bay on the channel to the Estero River. Related to another
local event I have been dealing with the gated community that is the
maintainers of record. They want to replace missing markers and clear
up the discrepancies in a Coast Guard complaint. It turns out I fixed
one of them over 2 years ago so that is a done deal. We are really
down to one that is missing. It is missing because it was in the wrong
spot and causing more trouble than it solved. (Vigilante activism)I
have gotten the USCG 7th district Miami to agree we should install the
new one in another spot and we have agreed on a place. DEP is OK with
whatever we want to do. Then comes the US Corps of engineers. I can't
even get them to return a call or respond to an enquiry on their web
site. (over a week) My first question is why in the hell is the army
involved at all?
#2 Why are they simply ignoring any attempt to get them to do their
job?
Now tell me the government is not out of control.
My thought is to just install the damned thing, get the CG and NOAA to
update the charts on the next go around and get on with our life. By
the time the Army figures out something is different we will all be
dead anyway. Until they solve the perceived lake O problems I doubt
anyone from the corps would show their face here.