Churning storm sparks concern over dike leaks (startled crabs & fish stress over families & homes)

The Fort Myers News Press via SOUNDOFF ^ | 09-05-03 | PAMELA SMITH HAYFORD

[cogitator]

The crabs prefer brackish water (where fresh water and salt water mingle) and it seems (to me) that theres still plenty of that around the Florida coast.

No doubt there is! But they have to be able to get there.

[cogitator]

The "primary motivation" was to protect human life and property, not to create and bio world where lying junk-science freaks could play God with wildlife.

I thought that the primary motivation, truly, was to provide a regulated water supply in a region where the water supply had a highly seasonal (wet season/dry season) pattern. In so doing, it disturbed the natural cycle in the Everglades. That's common knowledge, and I didn't think it was controversial.

Since you know so much about the area where I live and work, could you define "prime Everglades" for me?

Sure. It's where the flow out of Okeechobee to Florida Bay was sheet flow, not channelized and canal-ized.

Did you rknow that they built your house on what was once "prime woodlands"? Sorry to break that news to you, hope you were sitting down.

I believe I knew that. What's happening with Okeechobee and environs (and what has happened over the past decades) merely demonstrates that it's very difficult to entirely regulate and control a natural system; nature still has a way of mucking things up.

[gonzo]

Everything's saturated around Tampa to St. Pete to Tarpon Springs. Looks like the storm will pass North of us in Tarpon after soaking Sarasota.

We don't have a ACE-lake problem, just too-small sewers. There're manhole covers popping up and spilling raw sewage down the streets.

Too many people, and more coming. We're on our own septic system, so water's not a problem, but we don't dare try any external home improvements that require a building permit - a new, giant septic system is required if we do..............FRegards

[ClaireSolt]

Too bad enterprising people don't build pipelines and ship all that good water to deserts somewhere. I remember when things like water were called natural resources, before we came up with the vapid term "enviornment".