Re: [MBZ] Up and at 'em!

[Rich Thomas via Mercedes]

I'm going to ride my bike out to Captain Sams Spit to see the big OOPS 
that happened Friday.  They are digging a new channel at the end to 
redirect the inlet, and apparently didn't bother to check the tides 
report.  They had the channel cut, berms at each end, a dump truck and 
bulldozer down in teh channel, and the tide breached the berm and 
flooded the channel.  Dozer and dump truck in 10ft of water.  Then the 
next day the developers had an op-ed in the paper about how 
environmentally sensitive their development is.


--R

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 Bulldozer, dump truck submerged at Capt. Sam’s Spit

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Jun 5 2015 5:56 pm Jun 5 6:49 pm

A berm being placed across Capt. Sam’s Spit on Kiawah Island collapsed 
Thursday during high tide.
A berm being placed across Capt. Sam’s Spit on Kiawah Island collapsed 
Thursday during high tide. Provided by U.S. Coast Guard


KIAWAH ISLAND — No sooner than the sand berm went up to stop the Kiawah 
River, it came down. Now a bulldozer and a dump truck lie in the inlet 
off embattled Capt. Sam’s Spit.


The berm is designed to block the river where it empties into the ocean. 
It’s part of a recutting of the inlet by R.E. Goodson out of Darlington 
for the property owners association of neighboring Seabrook Island. It 
collapsed on Thursday to a surging tide a half-foot above normal.


“The tide came in higher than they expected and it washed out,” U.S. 
Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Chris Ruleman said Friday. An 
environmental cleanup company has been hired by Goodson to remove fuel, 
hydraulic fluid and other pollutants. Ruleman couldn’t say when the 
equipment might be able to be moved.


“We’re continuing to investigate and keep an eye on it. We haven’t seen 
any sign of (oil product) sheening on the water so far,” Ruleman said. 
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control staff also were on 
the scene Friday, a spokeswoman said.


A mariner’s warning is being broadcast because the equipment is too far 
under to be easily seen at high tide. Seabrook Island Town Administrator 
Randy Pierce said he drove out Friday morning and couldn’t see anything. 
A call to the Goodson company was answered by an office worker, who said 
she would contact a company official for comment. But no return call was 
received by deadline.


People who oppose a planned development on the spit were quick to point 
out that the mishap shows just how fragile the environment is.


“As they put more bulldozers on that (spit) this is what we can expect. 
It’s a problem for everybody,” said Anthony Noury of SeaTow Charleston.


“Whether it’s beach engineering or offshore exploration and drilling, 
accidents are unavoidable, and the results can be catastrophic,” said 
Dana Beach of the S.C. Coastal Conservation League. “We have been lulled 
into a false and dangerous sense of complacency by the folks promoting 
these projects.”


The mishap occurred as Goodson workers recut the inlet through the Capt. 
Sam’s Spit beach for the third time in 30 years. The recut is a 
patchwork repair job to prevent erosion on the island. It’s considered 
so important to Seabrook Island real estate that it is called for in the 
management plan.


Heavy duty equipment has been piling sand in two long, intersecting 
berms that look like runways, and along the berm coming in from the sea 
have opened a new channel. The collapse occurred along the second berm, 
being piled across the current inlet to block flow, shifting it to the 
channel.


As the work takes place, the Kiawah Partners development company and 
environmentalists battle over the spit, a wildlife-rich, 150-acre sand 
strip between the islands. The developers plan to build 50 homes on high 
ground, and an access road across the narrow neck of the teardrop-shaped 
spit.


The spit is prized for conservation and recreation because its cape 
beach is a feeding ground that, at times, draws seabirds by the 
thousands. Its inlet beaches are part of a rare strand-feeding ground, 
where dolphins drive schools of baitfish onto the beach and jump up 
after them to feed.


Like other inlet areas, it is c

Re: [MBZ] Up and at 'em!

[Scott Ritchey via Mercedes]

Question to retired guy:  "How many days are there in a week?"

Retired guy's answer:  "Seven.  Six Saturdays and one Sunday."


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Re: [MBZ] Up and at 'em!

[WILTON via Mercedes]

Yep.  Usually up 'bout 0800 to 0830; 'nobody I hafta impress; even SWMBO is 
not impressionable any more.  'Up tomorrow at 0600 for IVIG treatment at 
local hospital.  To bed most nights 'bout 2300.


Wilton

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Sleeping in, Wilton?  I was up at my usual 5:10 am.

Dan with half the day nearly over already


On Jun 7, 2015, at 8:55 AM, WILTON via Mercedes  
wrote:


Daylight's a burnin'!

Wilton
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Re: [MBZ] Up and at 'em!

[Dan Penoff via Mercedes]

Sleeping in, Wilton?  I was up at my usual 5:10 am.

Dan with half the day nearly over already


> On Jun 7, 2015, at 8:55 AM, WILTON via Mercedes  wrote:
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> Daylight's a burnin'!
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Re: [MBZ] Up and at 'em!

[Max Dillon via Mercedes]

May go sailing later today.  MB content: 87 wagon tows the boat just fine.
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[MBZ] Up and at 'em!

[WILTON via Mercedes]

Daylight's a burnin'!

Wilton
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Re: [MBZ] Up and at 'em!

[G Mann via Mercedes]

Been up all night.. is the party over already?

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> Burnin' daylight!
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Re: [MBZ] Up and at 'em!

[Craig via Mercedes]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:40:16 -0500 WILTON via Mercedes
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> Burnin' daylight!

I'm up, already!


Craig

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[MBZ] Up and at 'em!

[WILTON via Mercedes]

Burnin' daylight!

Wilt
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