Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Thanks, Provo!

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Originally posted by Shaka View Post
    My solution money be damned:

    Divert the Provo River for a season and drain the lake. We can call it Operation Carp Be Gone.

    No need to dredge just bulldoze the crap out of the bottom of the lake. Use some of the dirt to build the island community.

    Demolish Eagle Mountain City Center. Dump rest of dirt on demolished remains and allow nature to take over. Do not allow Eagle Mountain to rebuild City Center and relocate their city offices close to The Ranches. Better yet let Saratoga Springs annex The Ranches and surrounding communities and un-incoprporate Eagle Mountain City. We can call this: Operation Relocate Goatnapper's Vacation Home to a Better City.

    Divert Provo River back into Utah Lake and restock with awesome fish with names ending in trout.

    Build Shaka's new home complete with a killer boathouse on the best plot in the new island community.

    Provide JL with a powerful telescope so he can jealously watch Shaka and his harem wakesurf.
    Any ideas on a diversion path?

    Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
    "I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
    - Goatnapper'96

    Comment


    • Originally posted by Pelado View Post
      Any ideas on a diversion path?
      I wouldn't care as long as it runs through the NSA data center.
      "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
      "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
      "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
      GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

      Comment


      • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
        That's funny. Divert the provo river, hobble creek, SF river, etc. and while we are at it, use whatever magic voodoo we are using to "divert" those rivers and divert all the groundwater that goes into the lake through the bottom and springs and seeps on the edges.

        Reminds me of when we have an inversion and someone asks "Why don't they just build a big fan to blow out all the bad air?".

        Easily done in my world where money isn't an object.

        The rivers could be diverted through the current lake bed by building temporary dykes that effectively function as riverbanks. We can just put a cork in the natural springs.

        Ted and my dream is still alive!

        Comment


        • Originally posted by Pelado View Post
          Any ideas on a diversion path?

          Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
          We could loop it through the tree streets and back through the river bottoms. JL wants riverfront property.

          Comment


          • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
            June sucker = utah's version of the delta smelt.

            I am sympathetic and supportive of the endangered species act but we have to figure out a way to get some balance. Put a bunch of suckers in a tank, use rotenone to kill all the carp and reintroduce the june sucker. Might not save the sucker, but it seems like a much better long term solution. I would think killing off the carp would have lots of positive environmental impacts. But maybe the late is too big for treatment.
            I wonder if it is even truly possible to get rid of the carp completely without some sort of genetic manipulation introduced (maybe a virus). The Jordan River is full of Carp. I know the Jordan flows from the Utah lake, not into it, but I think there will always be a way for them to find their way back.

            There is a man made pond in Draper that one of our alfalfa fields used to border. The tributary that flowed into the pond was on our property. Is was a swamp about the size of a soccer field. In the Spring the carp would spawn in this swamp area. MY brother, myself, and any number of our friends would wade through the swamp with baseball bats and smack anything that moved. Then we would collect the floating carcasses and use them on the neighborhood vegetable gardens. Good times.

            Comment


            • I could lower Utah Lake by 15 feet for around a billion dollars.

              I would build big rubber dams/bladders filled with water and cordon off the lake into 1/10th sections.
              I would pump the water out of the 1/10th into the 9/10's.
              Each section would be pumped and excavated to the proper depth. The deeper the better... it's only removing 20 of overburden.
              I would put the dirt south and west of the airport - expanding the airport into a much larger and more major airport than it is....
              I would put some dirt in the middle and make an island community much like Jumeriah. High end homes with boat docks.
              I would call the island community Utetopia in honor of the original tribal members.
              I would put an Indian Casino at the heart of the Utetopia producing jobs for the local Native Americans, and as a way to pay for the dredging and construction.
              A section of of Utetopia would be reserved for BYU to build a modern football stadium.

              I could lower the lake for 1 billion, and I could build the community for 2.5 billion. 3.5 billion would be a deal for such overall positive results.
              Last edited by clackamascoug; 01-11-2018, 02:19 PM.

              When poet puts pen to paper imagination breathes life, finding hearth and home.
              -Mid Summer's Night Dream

              Comment


              • Originally posted by USUC View Post
                There is a man made pond in Draper that one of our alfalfa fields used to border. The tributary that flowed into the pond was on our property. Is was a swamp about the size of a soccer field. In the Spring the carp would spawn in this swamp area. MY brother, myself, and any number of our friends would wade through the swamp with baseball bats and smack anything that moved. Then we would collect the floating carcasses and use them on the neighborhood vegetable gardens. Good times.
                This is essentially what they are doing in Utah Lake now... but on a larger scale:




                Just back your truck up and grab a pitch fork!
                "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

                Comment


                • This makes more sense than that giant ski resort that was going to be based right out of Provo but it has about the same chance of ever getting done.

                  Comment


                  • Originally posted by Shaka View Post
                    Provide JL with a powerful telescope so he can jealously watch Shaka and his harem wakesurf.
                    Shaka, why do you lob softballs like this at me? Do you have any idea how much willpower it takes not to respond?
                    "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                    "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                    "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

                    Comment


                    • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                      Shaka, why do you lob softballs like this at me? Do you have any idea how much willpower it takes not to respond?
                      I’m hoping it dawned on you that I may not be serious. Besides, I can’t have you looking in on my boating activities. From a religious perspective you are, “The Man”. You might feel obligated to pass word of my deeds along to my, “The Man”.


                      Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

                      Comment


                      • idk a cab driver can still probably get a temple recommend even if some dude engages in self gratification in the back seat
                        Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

                        Comment


                        • "I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"

                          Comment


                          • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                            If only we had a professional fisheries biologist on the board who could weigh in here...
                            Typical Ute. Where is he when we need him?
                            "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
                            "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
                            - SeattleUte

                            Comment


                            • Originally posted by Shaka View Post
                              I’m hoping it dawned on you that I may not be serious. Besides, I can’t have you looking in on my boating activities. From a religious perspective you are, “The Man”. You might feel obligated to pass word of my deeds along to my, “The Man”.


                              Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
                              Another softball. Stop!
                              "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                              "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                              "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

                              Comment


                              • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                                Another softball. Stop!
                                No


                                Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

                                Comment

                                Working...
                                X