Monday, November 18, 2013

Is your community just collateral damage? RICE DIKE VS IKE DIKE

From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

 

Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 11:24 AM

 

To: Heber Taylor

 

Subject: re-Is your community just collateral damage?

 

Posted: Monday, November 18, 2013 12:00 am

 

Is your community just collateral damage? By HEBER TAYLOR galvestondailynews.com

 

The city of La Porte should get an award for clear thinking and unequivocal writing.

 

Governments are notoriously bad about getting to the point. But here’s a line from La Porte’s resolution opposing the Centennial Gate, a rival concept to the proposed Ike Dike Confused smile

 

The city of La Porte should get an award for clear thinking and unequivocal writing.

 

Governments are notoriously bad about getting to the point. But heres a line from La Porte's resolution opposing the Centennial Gate) a rival concept to the proposed Ike Dike:

 

"The City of La Porte does not accept the notion that areas of lower elevation seaward of Centennial Gate within any community fronting Galveston Bay should be considered collateral damage from the impacts of a storm surge.’'

 

The Ike Dike was proposed by Bill Merrell) a professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston, to protect the whole bay from the kind of storm surge seen in 2008. A rival concept, the Centennial Gate, was proposed by Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center at Rice University to protect the upper Houston Ship Channel with floodgates near the Fred Hartman Bridge.

 

And that's precisely what's wrong with putting any flood protection system so far north. The communities to the south would be collateral dam- age.

 

Such a system would not protect them. And it would make things worse as the surge of water, stopped by the floodgates, backed up. La Porte's resolution estimated that the Centen- nial Gate would raise the floodwaters an additional six inches.

 

La Porte's City Council let it be known it wasn't going to acquiesce quietly.

 

Communities across Galveston County - especially those that need protection - should note the example.

 

• Heber Taylor

 


 

 

Greetings Mr. Taylor and GDN et al,

 

 

Thank You Mr. Taylor and Galveston Daily news for your article and concept there from i.e. Is your community just collateral damage? or Rice Dike vs IKE Dike. 

 

WE been screaming this for a year or better, since the Rice Dike was proposed. Spoke with Dr./Professor Merrell several times via email, and at meeting in San Leon. all this Rice Dike across and under the Fred Hartman bridge area will do is dam up the end of the bay, thus, once another IKE comes through, the backwash there from, will flood and wipe out all of the surround Bayshore communities from La Porte to Texas City, and everything in-between east of SH 146 i.e. La Porte, Seabrook, Kemah, Bayview, Bacliff, San Leon, Hillmanville, south to Texas City, Texas, and for what, BIG OIL. so, we destroy everything for this. there was to be a 25 foot wall built along SH 146 from La Porte to Texas City, along where the old railroad tracks were, west of SH146, along with the damn that will be built up across the end of the bay by the FHB. but we complained and expressed our concerns and the rice dike folks took that out, but still propose said damn dam across and under the FHB. this will do the same thing still. we are directly on Galveston Bay, and when the surge from IKE breached the top of the hill (for the first time in recorded history) here in Bacliff, and then got into our house up on 2 foot blocks and piers, and those waves (mini tsunamis), kept pounding the house, and kept coming, until the eye crossed over around 2AM that morning of IKE, I can’t imagine the horror and damage that will come to all of us from this stupid idea of damning up Galveston Bay under the Fred Hartman bridge, on top of what a normal storm surge will bring us. this Rice dike and dam across the FHB will be a death sentence to all, everything gone, wiped out, for what is already drawn in the Rice dike plan, more amusement and recreational park areas, more motels and hotels, where our homes and land once were, it’s already drawn in the Rice dike plan animation drawing. but we all that lost everything, will just be as you say Sir ‘collateral damage’.  not enough money to build a Rice dike to protect _everyone_, officials and politicians choose to sacrifice the very ones that voted them to office. with these kind of officials and politicians in office, who needs enemies. they sold yours and my souls to the devil, the industry. the damn port of Houston should have never been. it should have always been in Galveston.  I see many, many lawsuits in the making, if, and when, the next big Hurricane Ike comes through, and it will. ...

 

 

RICE DIKE PROPOSAL WOULD DESTROY GALVESTON BAY BAYSHORE COMMUNITIES

 

 

TO FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IN THE BAYSHORE COMMUNITIES

 

THIS proposed RICE dike proposal, if approved in it’s entirety, would kill our Bay shore communities as we know it. Your property values would tank to zero, and you would eventually be forced out of your home. what the port of Houston and industries there from plan to do with this Rice dike, is to make the entire surrounding properties around the Galveston Bay complex a larger petro chemical complex, and cargo port, thus dredging more toxins for more GLIT islands to be built lining the ship channel filled with dredge toxins, for the next hurricane to bury our Bay shore communities, because the RICE DIKE, in it’s entirety, would literally wall us out of any Hurricane protective zone. What the Rice Dike does, it hangs me and my neighbors out to drown in 25 feet of water and toxic GLIT island Mud, and what is left will be used for “waterfront recreation and other environmental and natural coastal features”. This Rice dike proposal would take some of the highest elevated land around Galveston Bay and Real Estate there from, and turn it all into a marshland after the next big one.

 

PLEASE SAY KNOW TO THE RICE DIKE, AND SAY YES TO THE IKE DIKE BY TEXAS A.M.

 

IT’s time to take our communities and Galveston Bay back from the port of Houston and all it’s GLIT islands being manufactured in Galveston Bay, and also from the surrounding toxic chemical plants that continue to built.

 

Please see ;

 

RICE UNIVERSITY IKE DIKE hwy-146-levee proposal, THAT WOULD WASH AWAY SEABROOK, KEMAH, BAYVIEW, BACLIFF, AND SAN LEON

 

NOVEMBER 2011

 

Preliminary research results indicate that the most feasible structure will be a levee along SH-146 accompanied by pocket levees, built by private landowners. The levee would connect natural 25 foot elevations near the Houston Ship Channel and the Texas City Dike effectively protecting the properties and critical facilities and infrastructure west of SH-146. However, moveable barriers would need to be placed at Clear Lake and highway underpasses.

 

*** Furthermore, this proposal leaves waterfront properties and communities east of SH- 146 vulnerable; however, it maintains the possibility of waterfront recreation and other environmental and natural coastal features.

 


 

 

HERE is a IKE DIKE proposal that would help SAVE AND PROTECT SHOREACRES, SEABROOK, KEMAH, BAYVIEW, BACLIFF, AND SAN LEON.

 

THIS Ike Dike proposal by TAMU does NOT abandon all of us that have lived here all our lives, and this proposal does not sell out to developers ;

 


 

 

 

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From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 5:30 PM

 

To: William Merrell

 

Cc: Cherie Coffman

 

Subject: Re: Ike Dike question ? fantastic! thank you for your kind reply Sir, and explanation for the layperson such as me. many thanks, I like your proposal much, much, better Sir, considering my backyard is Galveston Bay here in Bacliff, 77518 shoreline. with that rice university plan, the shorelines from Kemah to San Leon and property values there from would tank and the next big one, we would all be marsh land. course, it would not matter much anyway, because that big toxic dredge island I have to look at everyday now, you know the one they propose to double in size now, well all that would be in our houses. ...what were they thinking. ...thanks again. with kindest regards, terry

 

 

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From: William Merrell

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 5:08 PM

 

To: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

 

Cc: Cherie Coffman

 

Subject: RE: Ike Dike question ?

 

Again - the Dike you describe is proposed by Rice University. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Ike Dike. The Ike Dike protects everyone in the Bay because it is along the coast. You can verify this and learn the details of the Ike Dike by going to our website

 


 

 

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From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [mailto:flounder9@verizon.net]

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 5:00 PM

 

To: William Merrell

 

Cc: Cherie Coffman

 

Subject: Re: Ike Dike question ?

 

Greetings again Dr. Merrell,

 

Sir, I had a question.

 

I did not have any ideas, other than the fact, I am concerned and confused on one of rumored proposals of Ike Dike, and we wanted to know the truth, and I was told, you were the person to go to, and my question was as follows ;

 

i heard that one of the potential designs for the ike dike, would have everyone living south of the Kemah bridge on hwy 146, and everyone east of hwy 146 there from, i.e. Kemah, Bayview, Bacliff, and San Leon, all these fishing communities would be EAST OF SAID IKE DIKE, as the said IKE DIKE would be built west of hwy 146, thus leaving everyone east of 146 to be left for marsh land, as any hurricane after said IKE DIKE built would leave these fishing communities as marsh lands due to any IKE DIKE built west of hwy 146, is any of this true?

 

is there any proposal on the table to eliminate the Kemah, Bayview, Bacliff, and San Leon shore lines from the Ike Dike?

 

is the scenario of said rumor, I proposed above, is this one of the proposals?

 

as home owners, property owners, and business owners, we are concerned, and we have a right to know if this is a proposal or not?

 

a simple yes or no answer will do. ...

 

thank you,

 

kind regards,

 

terry

 

 

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From: William Merrell

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 4:38 PM To: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

 

Cc: Cherie Coffman

 

Subject: RE: Ike Dike question ?

 

The 146 dike is proposed by the SSPEED Center at Rice. I agree with your ideas on it. The Ike Dike is a coastal spine which would protect everyone. Details on website http://www.tamug.edu/ikedike/

 

Best regards, Bill

 

William Merrell George P Mitchell Chair Texas A&M University at Galveston Po Box 1675 Galveston, Texas 77553-1675 409-740-4732 work 409-740-4787 fax 409-771-2225 cell

 

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From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [mailto:flounder9@verizon.net]

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 12:50 PM

 

To: William Merrell

 

Subject: Ike Dike question ?

 

Greetings Dr. Merrell,

 

I am a bit concerned and confused, and hoping you might be able to help straighten out any confusion on the IKE DIKE.

 

i heard that one of the potential designs for the ike dike, would have everyone living south of the Kemah bridge on hwy 146, and everyone east of hwy 146 there from, i.e. Kemah, Bayview, Bacliff, and San Leon, all these fishing communities would be EAST OF SAID IKE DIKE, as the said IKE DIKE would be built west of hwy 146, thus leaving everyone east of 146 to be left for marsh land, as any hurricane after said IKE DIKE built would leave these fishing communities as marsh lands due to any IKE DIKE built west of hwy 146.

 

is any of this true ?

 

can you please show me where all the said potential designs and drawings might be for the public to view on any said IKE DIKE ?

 

thank you,

 

kindest regards, terry

 

 

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END...TSS

 

Dr. Merrell, a marine scientist from Texas A&M, will be talking about his proposal December 11, 2012 at 7 P.M. to explain his proposal, at a Town Hall Meeting in San Leon, Texas, at the San Leon Fire Station. ...

 

 

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see full text ;

 

October 10, 2012

 

IKE DIKE PROPOSED BY RICE UNIVERSITY hangs our Bayshore communities out to dry, IN 25 FEET OF WATER, to make way for WATERFRONT RECREATION $$$

 


 

 

Sunday, December 9, 2012

 

*** RICE DIKE PROPOSAL COULD DESTROY GALVESTON BAY BAYSHORE COMMUNITIES

 


 

 

Monday, April 15, 2013

 

Hurricane Ike: 5 Years Later Conference Rice Dike Proposal September 24-25, 2013

 


 

 

Sunday, June 9, 2013

 

RICE DIKE AND IKE DIKE ARE RIVALS NO MORE, AND HAS BACKED OFF THE PROPOSAL OF A 20-MILE 25 FOOT LEVEE ALONG SH 146

 


 

 

kind regards,

terry

 

 

Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

P.O. Box 42

Bacliff, Texas USA 77518

flounder9@verizon.net

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