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If we run low, we'll bring more in.

Oh, that's brilliant. Put down five feet of dirt. Build homes on it.

Oops, it sinks five feet over the next two decades. What are ya gonna do, spread five more feet over the existing roads and yards and then jack up the homes to put dirt under them?

78 posted on 02/05/2006 12:22:59 PM PST by dirtboy (I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)

Oh, that's brilliant. Put down five feet of dirt. Build homes on it. Oops, it sinks five feet over the next two decades. What are ya gonna do, spread five more feet over the existing roads and yards and then jack up the homes to put dirt under them?

And your solution would be to build on land already 10 feet below sea level so that in two decades you are no longer 10 feet below sea level but are now 15 feet below sea level. Subsidence is not stopping.

Galveston solved this very problem 100 years ago. Without federal money either.