Comments on: As Sea Levels Rise, Who Will Pay to Protect and Restore South Bay’s Shore?

By: not him

not him — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:13:52 +0000

Much smarter people can comment about the facts and the other nonsense.

To me, Alviso is and will always be a magical corner of a lost paradise that burns a whole in my nostalgic heart.

Long live Alviso, bring back the boats, I will always wish my path had lead there!

By: Bemused

Bemused — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 04:57:14 +0000

Alviso is Santa Clara County’s version of the Lower Ninth Ward. Lucky for the residents and businesses that we don’t get hurricanes here.

By: Shoreline Watch

Shoreline Watch — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:15:21 +0000

As Rechelle Blank reported during an October joint meeting of Valley Water and the Sunnyvale City Council, the recent reassessment of the cost estimate for the Alviso Shoreline levee will only cover the distance from Alviso Slough to Artesian Slough. It will not cover the project-approved distance extending to Coyote Creek, leaving San Jose’s Regional Wastewater Facility unprotected. That facility serves eight cities. Valley Water is committed to finding funding to complete it, costs unknown, at least publicly. Plus who knows when?

By: Cymatics

Cymatics — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:32:47 +0000

Take money targeted for levees and pay businesses and homeowners for a planned retreat from rising water – the ocean is bigger than all of us, so levees are not a long term solution. Pay well enough so displaced homeowners and businesses can buy, at the least, a reasonably sized condo or storefront in a nearby community. You know we (citizens) are going to pay for this eventually. Why not be in front of the curve for a change?

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 05:00:48 +0000

“As Sea Levels Rise, Who Will Pay to Protect and Restore South Bay’s Shore?”

Middle income taxpayers for the most part and mostly brought on by themselves and the tenants of the properties they own through new property taxes they all approve.

By: David S. Wall

David S. Wall — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 04:52:25 +0000

Quit complaining, buy a boat and learn how to swim.

Dick Santos has been on the Board of Directors for the Santa Clara Valley Water District longer than ‘King Tut’ has been dug-up and placed on tour.

There will be plenty of ‘dirt’ once the Bart tunneling will begin and…don’t forget ‘Mount Bart Dirt’ already standing tall in the Lagoon area of the Water Pollution Control Plant.

David S. Wall

By: CA Patriot

CA Patriot — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:50:52 +0000

The title is misleading ‘Climate-Fearmongering’ – as the article states, Alviso, the lowest point in the SF Bay Area, is below sea level, on marshland, protected by levees – the greatest risk is not a ‘rise in sea levels’ – the risk is Floods due to large rain storms/ (ie, the pineapple express) – and rivers overflowing.

—————–As the ‘experts’ have been warning for Decades…———-

…“Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
Noel Brown, UNEP Director

…“A billion people could die from global warming by 2020.”
John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar

…“inaction will cause, by the turn of the century, 2000, an ecological catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust.”
Mustafa Tolba, Exec Director of the UN Environment Program

…“European cities will be plunged beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020.”
Paul Harris, 2004, UK Eco-Journalist

By: Work90

Work90 — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:21:11 +0000

Funny how the pictures show boats that were once in the water sitting high and dry while fretting over the sea lever rising :)

By: HB

HB — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:41:11 +0000

Stop building and maintaining (read subsidizing) properties below sea level. Problem solved ???