{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["26708", "330", "OIL ON THE BEACH", 27, "deepsouth", "Jun 6, 2010", "2010-06-06T01:32:16-0400", "peacefulpete\n wrote: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n            The Corps? <Shudder..>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf I were in charge, I'd hire two regulators for every member of the ACOE they bring in.  90 years of corps activity on the Mississippi has been an unmitigated disaster from Iowa to the Dead Zone they helped create long before the Deep Water Horizon exploded.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBring in the Seabees, at least they've got a vested interesting in protecting the Biloxi area.\n        \n\n\nClick to expand...\n\n\n\n\nPete, I agree that when the Corps has been left to create projects to justify its own existence  many problems have resulted.  However, they are the authority that lets and administers dredging contracts in public waters.  They are very good at that. They are the ones who can do the job.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a rather simple concept.  Dredge up material to build a 3 or 4 foot berm along the edge of the marsh to keep the oil out.  Small inlets protected by multiple booms could be cut in the berm to allow water (but not oil) to circulate into and out of the marsh, or the same could be accomplished with subsurface \"U\" shaped pipes.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf this had been started as soon as it was requested I  think the oil could have been kept out of the marshes.  Now the oil is washing up on beaches as far east as the Florida panhandle.  It will soon enter the bays and estuaries.  Still, neither the government nor BP is taking any real proactive measures to protect these resources.  Their attitude is to clean up the oil AFTER it has done its damage.  STUPID!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt's like a crowd of people watching a woman get raped without trying to stop it and then telling her afterwards that they're real sorry she got raped."]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["26708"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7202399992820574, "license": "Public Domain"}