Eight miles of pipe laid to keep frogs hydrated

Contra Costa Times website ^ | 12/30/2005 | Dennis Kuff

[kerryusama04]

A Contra Costa County water supplier has laid eight miles of pipe across rural grasslands to prevent California red-legged frogs from drying out and dying in the blistering summer heat.

The $163,000 project delivers water to 16 artificial ponds, breaking new ground in helping the threatened frog species celebrated in Mark Twain's story ``The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.''

[Ken522]

Why are they doing this??? To artifically keep those dumb frogs alive????

[dirtboy]

A Contra Costa County water supplier has laid eight miles of pipe across rural grasslands to prevent California red-legged frogs from drying out and dying in the blistering summer heat.

And how did these frogs survive before artificial pipelines?

[Jet Jaguar]

Taxpayer money? Could not the folks from PETA and WWF pay for this project?

[martin_fierro]

A Contra Costa County water supplier has laid eight miles of pipe ...

Braggart.

[digger48]

But if they don't, the frogs will croak

[eeriegeno]

Your tax dollars hard at work!!!!!!! Saving the frogs? Yep that's the ticket..... Maybe if we raise some more taxes we might be able to save the snails too??????? sarc/off (obviously)

[gov_bean_ counter]

So size really does matter, eh?

[martin_fierro]

I've laid nine, but who's counting.

[jdm]

"Eight miles of pipe laid to keep frogs hydrated"

The French can get their own water.

[steveo]

[ClearCase_guy]

Eight miles laid and when you bend down
You’ll find that it’s wetter than known
Frogs in the street that say where you’re leaping
Are somewhere just being hydrated you see

[Doogle]

But if they don't, the frogs will croak

..I wish FR had emoticons so I could use that one with the guy shaking his head and his mouth wide open

Doogle

[kdot]

I guess every uninsured child had heath insurance and all schools were fully funded. What a great place.

[billhilly]

What do we need with more Frenchmen?

[kdot]

I guess every uninsured child had heath insurance and all schools were fully funded. What a great place.

[Junior]

Braggart.

That's the first thought that crossed my mind.

[toddlintown]

"Eight miles of pipe laid..."

Those were the days.

[VOA]

In the future, we'll be advanced enough to know we should have a
non-interventionist policy:
"But you see Mr. Spock, Federation policy forbids us from interfering
with the onward progress of evolution...so we'll not be laying that pipe."

[paulat]

Why can't they just ride away on their imaginary motorcycles?