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Pensacola beach cleanup. WTF?
Posted on 7/22/10 at 9:59 am
Posted on 7/22/10 at 9:59 am
We've been here since Saturday, and between the oil cleanup and seaweed, I'm pretty confused. Hopefully someone can explain how this works.
The water is absolutely full of seaweed. I understand that BP is not charged with cleaning up seaweed, but whatever happened to periodic beach combings? The seaweed is everywhere amd it's full of trash. Pretty disgusting. Is the county trying to stay out of BP's way? It gets worse by the day.
As for the cleanup, there is very little oil. In fact I've only seen 2-3 little dots all week. Yet there is now a huge sifting apparatus parked across the street. There are 20+ workers hanging around, but they are simply running one backhoe load of sand at a time, bringing it to the sifter, and then running it back.
Meanwhile we see no oil, but the beach and water are dishmgusting. A whole lot of activity going on but nothing getting done. Can someone explain this process? It doesn't make sense to me, but I don't want to pass judgement...
The water is absolutely full of seaweed. I understand that BP is not charged with cleaning up seaweed, but whatever happened to periodic beach combings? The seaweed is everywhere amd it's full of trash. Pretty disgusting. Is the county trying to stay out of BP's way? It gets worse by the day.
As for the cleanup, there is very little oil. In fact I've only seen 2-3 little dots all week. Yet there is now a huge sifting apparatus parked across the street. There are 20+ workers hanging around, but they are simply running one backhoe load of sand at a time, bringing it to the sifter, and then running it back.
Meanwhile we see no oil, but the beach and water are dishmgusting. A whole lot of activity going on but nothing getting done. Can someone explain this process? It doesn't make sense to me, but I don't want to pass judgement...
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Posted on 7/22/10 at 10:06 am to Nature Boy
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Can someone explain this process?
Federal Gub'ment jobs
I saw the same "work" going on in Orange Beach a few weeks ago.
Posted on 7/22/10 at 10:11 am to bodean45
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There are 20+ workers hanging around, but they are simply running one backhoe load of sand at a time, bringing it to the sifter, and then running it back.
I am not sure I follow everything you said, but it sounds like they have nothing to do because no oil is coming ashore and that is why they have 20+ guys over at the sifter thing.
I assume the sand they are sifting if sand that they had collected earlier that had oil? Are they redepositing it on the beach after sifting?
Posted on 7/22/10 at 10:14 am to bodean45
It makes no sense to me, but WTF do I know? The sand that they are sifting looks pretty normal to me, and it's inland almost to the dunes. It ain't doing shite to make the beach more pleasant for vacationers. We're leaving on Saturday and the beach gets worse every day. Never seen it so dirty, especially in this area.
Posted on 7/22/10 at 10:17 am to omegaman66
They bring one load, run it through the sifter, then bring it right back. Takes them longer to drive the backhoe back and forth than it does to sift it. Sand looks exactly the same. They must be burning a tremendouse amount of gas to do nothing. This sifting machine is bigger than my last apartment fwiw.
Posted on 7/22/10 at 10:19 am to Nature Boy
Wow, that's surprising here in grand isle they police the beach and pick up all the trash. All the seaweed that washes up is thrown in a trash bag.
There's no oil washing up here at the time but we still have people out cleaning the beach everyday.
This is the cleanest grand isle has ever been if you exclude the oil that washes up.
There's no oil washing up here at the time but we still have people out cleaning the beach everyday.
This is the cleanest grand isle has ever been if you exclude the oil that washes up.
Posted on 7/22/10 at 10:21 am to mrsporksalot
If they are cleaning oil, or acting like they ar cleaning oil from the beach, they probably don't want to disturb the sand to clean up the seaweed in fear of covering up oil.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 4:59 pm to bodean45
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bodean45
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Federal Gub'ment jobs
This has nothin gto do with the Federal Government.
Posted on 7/26/10 at 4:38 pm to Nature Boy
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Can someone explain this process?
You're being paid, are you not?? Then STFU and wait for instructions.
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