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H the K[_2_]

On 10/6/09 3:14 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:26:22 -0400, H the K
wrote:

I'm sure happy I have my little patch of water behind my house. It is
really the most valuable thing I own.

What happens when the canal collapses? :)

That is what HOAs are good for. My dock is at the end of the canal
that serves the HOA boat basin so they would fix it.
In real life I would probably rent a big assed pump and suck it out
myself since I am the biggest user. I can sell the dirt for the price
of a day's pump rental.
Permits are trivial on this because it is not a natural body of water.
I just need to mud boom the entrance of the canal. If you boomed the
canal and did it over the weekend you could probably get away without
a permit, but as Nixon said, "that would be wrong" ;-)

The HOA has looked into digging the canal deeper but it is on the
"wait and see" agenda.

BTW that is the main reason why I let the mangroves grow as wild as
they are on the banks (ask Wayne). It holds the dirt so the canal
won't "collapse". Nature beats technology every time.
Just be sure to duck on your way out ;-)

In some parts of the world, there would be interesting snakes living
among the branches of those mangroves, just waiting to drop down on you,
including the genus Bungarus.

:)

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