I'm not clear on the point you're making. Who do you think should be on the
hook for maintaining our resource and for how much? What's the $ amount of the
possible damage?
Since you brought up the Eastman tunnel collapse, it might be good for those
that aren't aware of some of the history of the falls to take a look at this
link, http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/history/engineering/ . One thing is clear
from reading through the history, and that is that engineers and developers
have made mistakes and forgotten about things that later proved to drastically
alter their plans and the falls. So, is $10,000,000.00 enough to cover the
things that the engineers of the current project have overlooked or don't yet
know about ? I'm not in the water falls reconstruction business, but it seems
more than a little shy to me.
Dan McGuire
Ericsson
WizardMarks wrote:
> Dan McGuire wrote:
>
> > That sounds great ! So, then I presume the developers would be more
> >than willing to provide a performance bond in the amount of
> >$500,000,000.00 or so, payable to the city to insure that no damage is
> >done to the public's enjoyment of the area as it is now.
> >
> WM: The last time, when the Eastman tunnel caved in, it was the federal
> government that paid the cost of putting in the skirting in front of
> the falls and whatever else it took to put the falls into working order.
> It's absurd to think that a city this size could come up with and 8-zero
> figure. Saving the falls was not a matter that affected the general
> population; it was repaired, "saved" entirely for private industry.
>
> WizardMarks, Central
>
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