Thank you for explaining, but beautiful picture. marge ----- Original Message ----- From: "W David Samuelsen" <dsam@sampubco.com> To: <NY-CENTRA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [NYCENTRAL] What were they thinking? Canandaigua Lake > Been waiting for others to see what should not be there. > > 1. banks are bare , nothing to curb erosion from the top (the bottom clearly > show to be rock). Those stairways won't last after very heavy snowfall/rainfall > unless they had been deep-drilled and anchored. > > 2. Houses too close to the waterfront (should be 100 or more feet!) > > 3. Bare gulleys (in west they're referred to as gulches), no native plants to > control erosion > > 4. Those pipes, are they storm-drain only? > > 5. Some lots are way too de-forested, loss of habitat for wildlife. > > in case of Vine Valley, soil pollution is clearly visible from soil erosion. > > Speaking of #2 > Just like somebody said about the idiotic Californians who insist on building > too close to shoreline, as well as those idiotic Utahns who insist on building > big and fancy way high above cityline of Salt Lake City, sitting on very > sandy ground (the massive South Mountain development is on sand spit and already > legal troubles for the developers coming from those who live on solid and rock > ground below). (courtesy of record high-moisture snowfall and rainfall lately.) > > David Samuelsen > > Bill Hecht wrote: > > Be sure to closely examine the LARGE version of this picture. It is > > hard to believe this ever was permitted. > > Small version > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~springport/pictures126/12612small.j pg > > > > - LARGE VERSION - > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~springport/pictures126/12612.jpg > > > > Vine Valley > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~springport/pictures126/12613small.j pg > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~springport/pictures126/12613.jpg > > > ==== NY-CENTRA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list send your message to <NY-CENTRA-L-request@rootsweb.com> for individual list messages; <NY-CENTRA-D-request@rootsweb.com> for digest messages. Then put the word unsubscribe in the subject line and send your message. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > >