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Originally Posted by the Genral
I'm far too ignorant on the matter to offer any defense to the cause of opening the park but....I find that requiring the same standards of filtration, complete water cycle in 6 hours unachievable and unreasonable to require unless there's compromise by the commissioner's office, which by their really snarky, bullshit speeding ticket analogy, they won't, so it may be a while before this park opens, if ever. It pisses me off the way they are flexing their muscles against this high exposure enterprise and so late in the game. I'm all about entities designed to protect the public, but this has a slight stink of arrogance mixed in with it. My only concern with the surf park itself is how they believe they can maintain the water level with rain water alone. But....I'm sure they factored in the extended periods of 90 degree plus temperatures with the extended periods of no rain and the agitation of the water with the man made waves blown into by regular hot southern winds, while calculating the evaporation rate and replenishment requirements, right? Can't help thinking that there might have been some slick Willie salemanship involved here to get by any anti water park opposition. Surely they will need to use a water source other than collected rain water eventually. And don't call them Shirley.
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I'm also too ignorant to be spouting off about it, but I agree with what you said about the county "flexing their muscles" and the snarky, arrogant vibe about this last-minute attempt to thwart a project that has been in the works for over a year. If it's so important to have that kind of gov't oversight then why wasn't TC involved from the beginning of the process? Their timing is malevolent. Even if the county didn't know exactly what they were going to ask of N'land, why wouldn't someone from TC put in a phone call or pay N'land a visit to talk it over? It's like if my neighbor told me exactly what type of house he was going to build, and I just kick back and watch him build it, and then file a lawsuit against him for blocking my view or being too close to the property line, waiting until it's almost finished. There's nothing justifiable about that type of behavior, and if all of us on this forum have been aware of N'land for so long, surely TC officials were likewise aware. They're just being cruel, they're bullies, they're waiting for a kid to finish building a sand castle so that they can kick it to smithereens.
N'land's "pool" is quite unique and it doesn't correlate with the type of pool for which the county initially developed its rules, so there will need to be some kind of analysis performed that takes into account the unusual parameters involved in N'land's wave pools. My hunch is that the size and turbulence of their pools will help to prevent the types of problems that the rules are designed to prevent. Also, I'd guess that the number of people in the water at any given time will be much lower than for any other pools, relative to the size of the pool. On the other hand, maybe there will be unique problems associated with N'land, and I'm not advocating that the county just ignore public safety, but they didn't need to file a lawsuit as their method of saying "hello."
Opposing opinions always welcome! I prefer to be called out on faulty thought processes before I get too attached to any particular POV. Until such time as my reasoning on N'land v. Travis County is called into question, I remain pissed at Travis County. And again, I'm tossing Carson Creek Ranch into the mix, because I think it's a similar type of process that probably involves some of the same characters on the side of TC. I can think of one argument on the side of TC, which is that N'land's developers should have known better than to expect that they could just buy a piece of land and do something so unprecedented without any form of gov't oversight. Lack of communication on the part of both parties, that's the upshot of this, though maybe N'land had gone through enough permit processes to have assumed that they had a green light from all relevant entities to proceed as planned.
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