Posted on 06/08/2007 4:22:01 PM PDT by Vob
Up to two million tires are at the bottom of the ocean floor off the coast of Florida. They damage reefs, wash up on the beach and create a hazard for beachgoers. How did they get there? Don’t ask ABC News.
With the power of government and the green movement of the 1970s, the process was set into motion to build artificial reefs from used tires. All ABC could say was that “someone” had gotten the idea going.
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Don’t hold us accountable! We had good intentions.
The truth is, Ray McAllister, a professor emeritus of ocean engineering at Florida Atlantic University, was instrumental in pushing the original idea forward. Then the idea got government support. According to an Associated Press story, the effort won approval of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and local county officials. McAllister helped found Broward Artificial Reef, Inc., the company that organized the effort to build what is called “Osborn Reef.”
So do we send the $3 million - $5 million bill to McAllister or to Florida Atlantic University?
This is what they'll be saying about lowering carbon emissions in about 20 years.
I think I vaguely remember a movement to put tires into the Hudson River off Manhattan so that fish would have a place to hatch their eggs. That was about the time that an idiot judge killed the project to put the West Side drive underground, because he said it might hurt the fish. This was after John V. Lindsay, the worst Mayor NYC ever had bar none, let the old West Side Drive collapse because of neglected maintenance.
Artificial reefs are a great idea and are great for fishing - as long as they aren’t old tires.
Now environmental groups fight stuff like sinking old subway cars for artificial reefs tooth and nail.
Another example of government not having the brains that God gave turtles. I had a Chemistry professor at University of Florida who was so incensed at the idea of replacing lead in gasoline with known carcinogens that he testified before Congress on the idiacy. Think of it, the government “experts” wanted to take a pollutant and replace it with subsitutes that were KNOWN to cause cancer.
worse mayor title may be going to bumberg
The same media who will devote hours to Scooter Libby can’t be bothered to investigate a large-scale man-man environmental disaster.
Hey...I wasn’t even there! I had stepped out to get some Chinese food and and a pack of gum. When I got back, man all those tire were just there. You can’t pin it on me.
Good grief!! Old ships make the best reefs!! RUBBER...SMELLY RUBBER????/What were they thinking?
They don't think, they only feel....
“Artificial reefs are a great idea and are great for fishing - as long as they aren’t old tires.’
MOve all the tires to New Orleans and build NO up as an underwater theme park and convention center.
Everyone can live on stilted homes.
Artificial reefs made from old tires are terrific for finding lobsters in.
As a teen, I worked for the YCC and spent a summer weighting and tying old tires together for a burial at sea in the Long Island Sound off of Smithtown, NY.
This is a Classic Keeper article!
It should be filed for easy reference to refute current and future hare-brained schemes.
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