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Posted on: Sep. 25 2014,5:21 pm |
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I received this document from a local taxpayer concerned about the ballooning cost of dredging Fountain Lake.
Some of the interesting parts are the new cost estimates of $35 million to $44 million. Also it seems that dredge we bought is too small and even with a larger dredge it would take 2 years working 24hrs a day, 6 days a week. We also need to dewater the soil that we dredge and the water treatment plant would cost $10,000,000.
You can read all the gory details here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/241009665/Dredging-Cost-Fountain-Lake
Maybe the Tribune can do a story on this information and on that white elephant dredge we bought, where it's being stored, how much we're paying, and who we are paying to store it.
-------------- The people are masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!
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Posted on: Sep. 25 2014,6:49 pm |
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Oh the road to hell is paved with good intentions, So who's all gonna get evisorated on this one???
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Liberal
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Posted on: Sep. 25 2014,8:30 pm |
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How crazy is it that we have to treat/polish the water before returning it to the lake it just came out of?
At the rate they're going that $15,000,000 will be eaten up by administration, engineers, consultants, and storage fees before that lake is an inch deeper.
I wonder where the $15,000,000 figure originally came from.
-------------- The people are masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!
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Posted on: Sep. 25 2014,8:48 pm |
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But if they don't there'll be a global, I mean Albert Lea catastrophe,
Sorry, couldn't resist but I also couldn't help seeing a lot of similarities. The wrong people have gotten ahold of this, they might have meant well but but it looks like it might become a fiscal disaster.
Progressives should not be in political office.
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grassman
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Posted on: Sep. 25 2014,11:28 pm |
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I've polished the water in my aquarium, for a whole lake?
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Common Citizen
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Posted on: Sep. 26 2014,7:13 am |
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I don't understand why this is such a complicated task to undertake and execute. They dredge all the time in the Mississippi River without all the monkey business Barr Engineering is proposing.
The Mississippi can't be that much cleaner with it flowing through the Twin Cities, multiple towns and farms sitting beside it.
Who is storing the dredge, what are those fees, and what relationship does that person have with the local government?
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Posted on: Sep. 26 2014,9:53 am |
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15 million works out to about $500 a head for everyone in the county.
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Liberal
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Posted on: Oct. 01 2014,11:32 am |
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She got it done in two minutes, how long had republican state reps failed at getting it done?
-------------- The people are masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!
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