Comments on: WAYNE CREED Wake Up to Danger of Saltwater Intrusion

By: Wayne Creed

Wayne Creed — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:42:02 +0000

Thanks Joe, good lessons learned from the desert,and after your insights, I’m more pessimistic. What is worrisome, due to geology, there really isn’t a practical/economical solution (as VB, Norfolk, Hampton and Chesapeake are finding out)…once these aquifers collapse, the next best bet would be piping it in from Lake Gaston…NC has already told VB and Chesapeake no…like the poet said, “Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.”

Yeah, we probably shouldn’t have shot that albatross.

By: Joseph Corcoran

Joseph Corcoran — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:29:24 +0000

“Sounds good, but, we better start saving up for that desalination plant, just in case.”

I once lived in Saudi Arabia in the city of Al Jubail . Next to Al jubail is the desalination plant for the city Al Riyadh. The Town of Cape Charles would fit into the corner of the workers housing area for the plant. Anyone talking about desal as the solution for Cape Charles’s water needs is out of touch with reality.

Just up the highway from Al Jubail is something called ARAMCO and the amount of oil it provides for desal would bankrupt the state of Virginia.

We better get serious about a practical solution to the impending water shortage.

By: Thomas D. Giese

Thomas D. Giese — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:40:00 +0000

I completly agree with Mr. Creed, all humans should be required to leave the Eastern Shore and return the land to nature. However, I do not want the process to start until Brigitte and I are with our Maker.