More Illegal Activity -- Filling in Wetlands

[Smiling JOe]

I have been telling y'all he is the smart one.:roll:

Anyone, who reads somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 top newspapers from around the world every day, has to fairly well-educated.

 

[Jdarg]

Anyone, who reads somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 top newspapers from around the world every day, has to fairly well-educated.

And I thought he was working.

 

[Smiling JOe]

And I thought he was working.

He's a fast reader.

 

[mf]

just for anyone without a doubt, I thought I should give the full process of how the lack of wetlands does not decrease mosquitos.

A wetlands is filled in with dirt to make way for housing development.

Then the developer installs a system of canals and drainage ponds. As the community grows the roads that are paved increase the runoff into the ponds. This runoff not only carries pollutants from the street but picks up lawn fertilizers and chemicals from people's yard. This combination is then carried into the ponds where it has nowhere else to go.
As more and more stuff is dumped into these ponds any fish put into the ponds for mosquito control are killed. Their deaths may occur not only from pollutants but also from an excess of algae on the surface of the pond that can be created by the fertilizer. The algae prevents the underwater plants that produces the supply of oxygen that the fish need in the water from growing but also make feeding on the mosquito larvae difficult. Thus many more mosquitos are made because the control is gone.
Not only is this caused by roads but the elevated area created by the filled in wetland produces runoff too. Since the area is often used for a house of building there will probably be fertilizers or chemicals somewhere.
Damage from filling in is not limited only to wetlands. The runoff may also enter the ocean, causing a similar effect there that we call Red Tide.

Just thought it should be good to point out what we've learned in the past 30 years.

we need more pirates like you

 

[ShallowsNole]

Good point, but y'all (meaning everybody on this thread) please don't knock the people, well-educated for their era, who were brave enough to live here before all of these things were learned. :nono1:

 

[Beachlover2]

Good point, but y'all (meaning everybody on this thread) please don't knock the people, well-educated for their era, who were brave enough to live here before all of these things were learned. :nono1:

Well put:clap_1: :clap_1:

 

[Smiling JOe]

Good point, but y'all (meaning everybody on this thread) please don't knock the people, well-educated for their era, who were brave enough to live here before all of these things were learned. :nono1:

Sorry, wasn't meaning to pick on floridagirl's father so much as trying to give other readers perspective on where floridagirl gets her outdated information. Times have changed, but some new people are still stuck in old ways, and it isn't just here in Walton County. ;-)

 

[ShallowsNole]

I think we all agree "nowadays" in preservation of wetlands and their ecosystems, especially since SoWal has grown. In reference to the illegally infilled lot, back in the old days, nobody was stupid enough to try to build on a lot like that. High and dry were important terms to know.

Of course, my dad put down two septic tanks that would be illegal by today's standards and dumped bricks and other miscellaneous debris on part of our shoreline for homemade riprap (fifty years later we are STILL cleaning it up). The craziest thing was, in the 1950's, he had some fellows drill for oil on part of our property near Fate Love Bayou and nearly caused a sinkhole in what is now Egret's Landing. I told the planning commission about it before it was approved...hope nothing happens when someone builds there! :funn:

 

[florida girl]

Whoooaaa Nellie! You have a documented case!?!? Names, date and virus strain, please...I don't know if Florida Girl's discovery will be a bigger boon to the homophobes or the folks who brew DEET.

YOU
CAN'T
CATCH
AIDS
FROM
MOSQUITO
BITES!!!

I believe you can just as you can get it from a blood transfusion. Too much pc nonsense for me, rather be safe than sorry.

 

[florida girl]

Sorry, wasn't meaning to pick on floridagirl's father so much as trying to give other readers perspective on where floridagirl gets her outdated information. Times have changed, but some new people are still stuck in old ways, and it isn't just here in Walton County. ;-)

Necessary to build on the old ways, provide proof, evidence to come to an accurate conclusion. As much as you say you have improved, I say you have digressed. Many of you are like sheep to the slaughter; you readily believe what your peers have told you without searching it out for yourself. Our culture demands respect for our elders with a proven track record of what they are. I do not believe in throwing out the old paths, many important lessons to be learned, nor are we, as local culture, rugs to be ridiculed, and trampled on. Who are your peers? Why do you believe everything they say? Are they worthy of your adoration and undying loyalty? Many of you came to South Walton with a chip on your shoulder, thinking that we locals were some kind of scum, that your intense brain was so much better than we. Most of us would roll our eyes and say nothing, knowing that nature itself would correct many of the issues. I applaud those old timers, such as Capt. Melvin that stood up and wrote a letter to the editor and voiced his views. I think more of us should do so. I refuse to be a rug for your nonsense, if you don't agree, give me PROOF! Evidence to back up your theory! I am not ashamed to be a local, I'm proud of my heritage! I like our culture, I don't like the city! I don't know why anyone would want to live in one!