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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Menoman
Ok so again, it takes up a area = 31 football fields. So we can at least assume it's a circular or at leave oval area this is taking up. I'm sure it's not a straight line right up the coast.
If Florida is going to lose even 1$ in it's fish industry I would be astounded.
Barren Oceans? Come on... that's taking overly dramatic to new heights.
Large part of prime oceanfront? Again, that is simply an amazing over exaggeration.
Think about it, the absurd amount of fishing area, scuba area, around florida, Do you, in all honestly believe this will effect a single thing? Besides a fishing boat might have to move about 10 minutes away once in awhile?
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Maybe you don't care because you don't live in Broward County where there is a major impact of this.
In case you don't know, Broward County consists of 31 cities, many of them oceanfront, including Fort Lauderdale. They all depend on tourism dollars to some degree. People who come for the beaches spend money, people who don't come to beaches don't bring tourist dollars. Simple, no loss of fishing has to be the reason of economic loss.
People who thought like you must have been on the original council. Because the reality:
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Virginia tried it several decades ago. But Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 ripped the tires loose, and they washed up in North Carolina.
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Virginia doesn't owe anything to North Carolina and their beaches. They didn't wash up on Virginia Beaches.
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New Jersey scientists thought they had a solution to the weight problem. In 1986, the state began a small reef project with about 1,000 tires split in half, bound together and weighted with concrete. It didn't work. Pieces of rubber broke loose and floated free.
"We had to go up and down the coast of New Jersey and collect 50 to 100 of those pieces that were all along the beaches," said Hugh Carberry of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection.
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New Jersey Coastline 130 miles
From the EPA.gov website (note date of abstract is 2003):
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Beginning in 1967, Broward County initiated a project to build an artificial reef with waste tires. The tires were bundled and bound with non-corrosive non-oxydizing strapping. By 1973, over a million tires had been dumped within a permitted area. Storm events and ocean currents have subsequently caused the break-up of the tire "reef" releasing them and making them easily subject to movement. Over the years, many of the tires have washed ashore following tropical storms or hurricanes, and the remaining tires continue to move with wave action and currents. Many of the tires have been forced up against the eastern edge of the middle coral reef off Broward County, with numbers at individual sites estimated in the hundreds of thousands. Tires that occasionally wash up on the beaches after severe storms are likely to have impacted both the middle and inshore reefs. Photographs and diver surveys of one site indicate severe damage of live coral that make up the hard substrate. In addition, the repeated impact of the tires has damaged critical reef fish habitat. The NOAA Restoration Center entered into a partnership with Nova Southeastern University to implement a community-based effort to remove a portion of the tires piled up against the eastern edge of the middle reef. The primary objectives of this project are the removal and recycling of loose waste tires from a section of natural coral reef off Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Volunteer divers will first examine the tires for the presence of hard coral colonies. They will remove and package the hard corals for transport to a coral nursery established by the National Coral Reef Institute-Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center. The tires will be tied in bundles of ten, anchored in place, and marked with a surface buoy. Geographic Positioning System coordinates will be noted for each bundle. A commercial dive company will raise the tire bundles, return them to shore, and store them for proper disposal. A licensed tire recycling company will dispose of the tires. Monitoring of the site will take place quarterly for one year following removal of the tires. This project will develop a community-based network of volunteers who are committed to marine resource stewardship. The cooperative effort will be a highly visible project with numerous opportunities for public outreach and participation to promote coral reef conservation and fishery habitat restoration in Florida. Partners include the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Broward County Dept. of Planning and Environmental Protection. Current Status as of April 30, 2002: The primary objectives of removing and recycling the loose waste tires were completed during the period of April 2001-September 2001. Follow-up activities, including monitoring the cleared area for tire re-incursion and monitoring transplanted coral for survivorship over time, have occurred during the period of October 2001-March 2002.
The project has been submitted to this inventory by USEPA with the permission of NOAA. For more information about NOAA or their projects, you can visit either the NOAA homepage at www.noaa.gov or the NOAA Restoration Center at www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration.
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