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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17762 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject: Treasure Island Update |
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Yesterday I was at TI for a meeting, and went by the launch site. Fencing is up around the lot and all housing areas, and I saw soil being excavated and the areas being backfilled with gravel. Then in the afternoon I got the Navy newsletter which said they have slipped the schedule for completion until early 2008. They have found “some glass decorative buttons and deck markers...that contained low levels of radium...similar to what we be found in some .... smoke detectors.” This has slowed down excavation, and it looks like the fall is lost. Sigh.
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madspaniard
Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 380
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Got the letter too. Yesterday we were about 8 to 10 windsurfers launching from 13th st. plus the formula guys that sailed up from Berkeley. Probably the cowdest day TI has seen this season yet. |
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jse
Joined: 17 Apr 1995 Posts: 1460 Location: Maui
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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It's kinda skeery when you have to choose your sail and then sail around the corner before you see the wind or the windsurfers that are already out.
Steve |
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faradroka1
Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 216 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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10 to 12 of us out there today. ebb tide tomorrow afternoon, hopefully the wind will collaborate again. |
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madspaniard
Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 380
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:42 am Post subject: |
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I'm wondering if there is a way we can get some sandbags for the rip rap at 13th st. It would be helpfull especially when the tide is as low as yesterday. Some of us got minor cuts climbing up the rip rap with the gear. Lat season some people did the same in the rip rap by the boat ramp. Any idea where we can get some sandbags? |
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faradroka1
Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 216 Location: East Bay
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SPQR
Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 274
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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1600 hundred year half life, holy shi....!!! Gives a whole new meaning to not eating the fish and oysters. |
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buestad
Joined: 22 May 1998 Posts: 19
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Last year I got approximately 20 sand bags from the Rio Vista Windsurf Ass. . They gave them to me after I told them that I was using them at T.I. We could go get the existing ones and use them a the bottom of 13th Street until they reopen the parking lot. Perhaps if one was going to T.I. during working hours the construction workers would let us in so that you don't have to walk all the way around???
What about sandbagging a ramp off the West end of the island??? They seem to have opened up much of that area??? Carrying you gear is a bitch, but would mean a lot less swimming??? |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17762 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: Sandbags |
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Be careful folks. Placing any material in the Bay, even sand, is regulated by both Federal and State laws that provide substantial penalties. Don't leave paper trails!! |
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SPQR
Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 274
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah Mac is right. When the ASD boys suggested putting sand bags on the deteriorating shore at Coyote Point the rangers quickly pointed out they weren't even allowed to lift a finger to move sand or rocks around to prevent the errosion that has wrecked part of the embankment. All sorts of regulations govern stuff like that, unless of course you did it under the cover of darkness! |
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