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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:53:38 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:26:55 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

The Caloosahatchee was designed to handle all that water when it was
"channelized". The Sanibel Causeway is what screwed up the flow.

SW Florida is going to disappear, sort of like Atlantis?

If we have a storm that tracks such that the wind is out of the north
across the lake Clewiston might be the new Atlantis.
Other than the loss of salinity in San Carlos Bay and Pine Island
Sound we are OK here on the coast but the hype and hysteria is running
rampant. The reality is this problem has been going on for decades.
There used to be a scallop industry in Pine Island sound long after
the Army Corps channelized the Kissimee and the Caloosahatchee but the
Sanibel Causeway killed it.
Lee County tried to reconfigure that causeway and put in a high bridge
20 years ago and Sanibel has had them in court several tiomes. Now the
Sanibel folks are the ones bitching the most about these releases ...
that have gone on since the FDR administration. The channelization of
the river started in 1881 and continued until the late 70s. Major
flood control projects in okeechobee started during the Hoover
administration after the flood and continued through the new deal and
again after WWII. This is not a "new" fresh water problem. It just has
new activists with new agendas.
The folkks with the signs don't really know who they are working for.
The real power brokers are the real estate developers who want to
develop the sugar fields. The folks protesting now are their puppets,
whether they know it or not.

OK. You win. I won't move to Florida.
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'Til next time,

John H

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