Comments on: $50 Million Gulf Restoration Plan Includes North Escambia Initiative

By: river

river — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:50:40 +0000

Cleaning out log jam want do any good if the river isn’t widened, dredged, and maintained. Won’t never happen. Waste of time and money.

By: jeff george

jeff george — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:16:54 +0000

well another program for the well to do farmers. you peapatchers need not apply.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:10:54 +0000

Hello River Life. I find it difficult to believe you were threatened, for having a chainsaw sitting in the bottom of your boat.

By: tuf

tuf — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:35:01 +0000

Fact check on comments referencing federal deficit spending.

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Gulf Restoration Funds are NOT sourced from taxpayer dollars or from federal deficit spending.

The source? BP, you know, a/k/a Macondo well/Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010. $500 million was provided to the federal government to restore the ecosystems of the Gulf and tributaries to the Gulf, and $50 million is being sent into Escambia County, Florida.

By: river life

river life — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:15:56 +0000

Put in at pollard go up river tell me what you smell. Its not the plant its the water . The second thing needs to be done is remove the logs and log jams to ensure safer boat navigation up and down the river. The removal of the the log jams will increase flow therefore lower the river level. My suggestion is to place a dam around the sandy landing area to maintain the river level. I spend my childhood years hunting and fishing on the Escambia river, you can’t hunt because of ivan and can’t fish because low water level. Local fishermen are trying to cut logs out of the river but guess what it’s illegal. I had a game warden tell me he would right me a ticket if he saw another chainsaw in a boat. When I was a kid the river was full of people hunting and fishing, go to any landing this past summer and tell how many boat trailers you saw. Its not because the water is clean or not, its because you can’t navigate up or down the river. I’m very pride of fisher landing but what good is a landing if you can’t go around the next bend.

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By: Tuf

Tuf — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:20:00 +0000

According to the US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Gulf restoration funds are sourced from $500 million that came from BP, NOT from federal borrowing.

By: just plain country

just plain country — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:26:44 +0000

They want to improve the water quality on escambia River. They can start with Georgia-Pacific located on hwy 31 South of Brewton Al. If you want to see what they are doing then pull up an arial view of the river where they dump into it. The arial shot will tell all, except for the smell of the river.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:59:45 +0000

Carolyn/Char you are worrying about that deficit, a thing that has grown beyond the grasp of mortal man. I suggest you leave it to the Lord, as the impossible is his realm.

By: Char

Char — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:15:03 +0000

Your right Carolyn….there is no money except what they borrowed
at a high rate of interest. It is debt on all of us, our children and
grand children and sometime somewhere we will all have to
pay the pipper.

Everything going out and nothing comming in is called bankruptcy and
we just keep on borrowing???????

By: thnker3

thnker3 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:39:27 +0000

Let me pose a question here. If all the log jams were removed, would that have unintended consequences. The river being reduced to a trickle. Like pulling the plug on the bathtub, allowing a great volume of water to drain fast thereby reducing overall water level. Would it? I don’t know