Cleaning up the bay
Have you seen these ugly dumpsters up and down the waterfront at the Seminole Boat Ramp? They are actually part of a beautification project.
Twice a year, the government goes out with cranes and lifts abandoned and sunken boats from the water. Between the boat ramp and the lighthouse on Key Biscayne, dozens of dumpsters worth of old vessels will be collected and dumped.
All this pollutes the water. A perfectly new boat stolen from Sarasota a year ago was even found below the surface right here in our bay.
The dumpsters are donated by the various trash haulers who work in the county, sort of a little payback for being allowed to operate here and only the truck driver and crane operator are paid.
This usually takes two or three full days, and then all the dumpsters will be gone with the abandoned boats, flotsam and jetsam for another six months.
posted by Tom Falco at 10:40 AM
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1 Comments:
they aren't just plucking abandoned boats. they're taking people's homes out there- crushing them, and then billing the people they just put on the street for the demolition. one man saw them coming as he was leaving his boat one day to go register this boat, which served as his home, so it would be perfectly up-to-date and safe from the wreckers, and so he approached them first. he provided all his paper work and showed them that he had the money to go have it done, and he was on his way at that. as soon as this poor man turned one of the spoil islands out there, they went straight to his boat, plucked it out of the water, and trashed it. how do these people sleep at night? people may be wondering why there's suddenly a shiut ton more people sleeping outside around the grove lately. this is why.
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