Poem's Concerns are Real The substantiation for this child's poem is found in numerous official documents. Ironically, the increased accident rate is even in the Final Environmental Impact Statement Response to Comments section. The best source for airlines concerns and Port's tax statements is the 1998 Passenger User Fee Application submitted by the Port to the FAA. The ACC consultant reports address the record breaking tall embankment wall that is being designed to about half of the normal structural standard even though a portion of it is sitting in the middle of a seismic anomaly . For more information on the risks associated with seismic anomalies (soil that liquifies in an earthquake and how structures can fail from an earthquake an hour after the original earthquake since soil movement continues please see Wetlands and Water Comments. Soft soils are also discussed in a 1999 Peer review of a Wall report paid for by the Port but I don't have an electronic copy of that one. Oct 2002 Update on unsafe wall - Polllution Control Board ruled in Aug 2002 that it is ok for the 155 foot wall ( or cliff if you are unlucky enough to be in an aircraft trying to land on the proposed third runway) to fail inan earthquake because it is "not a lifeline". Tell that to the salmon 50 feet from the base of the wall - bet if they could talk they'd have a few things to say about millions of cubic yards of fill burying them alive. The more important question though is will the children that attend Sunnydale Elementary also be buried in the landslide? |
Proposed SeaTac 3rd Runway Deadly, Extravagent, And Dependent (doesn't even solve the capacity problem) |
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Summary Poem |
World's Most Expensive Part Time Runway Oh how you will pay, If the Port gets their way. They want a deadly Runway. They don't know the cost or who will pay. They don't want to say, Cause they know they won't get their way. Thousands of barges or millions of trucks, who's to say? Will the rain wash the fill away? If it does, who will pay? Or, will an earthquake cause it to slip away? Sliding towards the bay, Killing everything in the way. And for the salmon, it will be a bad day. It means death and destruction will come one day. Port says it will cause less delay. But the airlines say "No way". Pilots say it's not a safe runway. It won't prevent delay. And the airlines don't want to pay! So who will win and who will pay? The builders that profit don't care who will pay. They don't care if it's us every day. As the Port did say, Don't worry, we can raise taxes, to the FAA. |
Poem's Concerns are Real The substantiation for this child's poem is found in numerous official documents. Ironically, the increased accident rate is even in the Final Environmental Impact Statement Response to Comments section. The best source for airlines concerns and Port's tax statements is the 1998 Passenger User Fee Application submitted by the Port to the FAA. The ACC consultant reports address the record breaking tall embankment wall that is being designed to about half of the normal structural standard even though a portion of it is sitting in the middle of a seismic anomaly . For more information on the risks associated with seismic anomalies (soil that liquifies in an earthquake and how structures can fail from an earthquake an hour after the original earthquake since soil movement continues please see Wetlands and Water Comments. Soft soils are also discussed in a 1999 Peer review of a Wall report paid for by the Port but I don't have an electronic copy of that one. Oct 2002 Update on unsafe wall - Polllution Control Board ruled in Aug 2002 that it is ok for the 155 foot wall ( or cliff if you are unlucky enough to be in an aircraft trying to land on the proposed third runway) to fail inan earthquake because it is "not a lifeline". Tell that to the salmon 50 feet from the base of the wall - bet if they could talk they'd have a few things to say about millions of cubic yards of fill burying them alive. The more important question though is will the children that attend Sunnydale Elementary also be buried in the landslide? |
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