{"id":338,"date":"2010-02-01T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2010-02-07T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T00:10:32","slug":"bulkhead-permitted-on-the-kiawah-spit-good-old-boy-network-proves-more-persuasive-than-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Bulkhead permitted on the Kiawah Spit &#8211; &#8220;good ole boy&#8221; network proves more persuasive than science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After another round of appeals, Kiawah Development Partners (KDP) has been permitted to build a bulkhead that will &#8220;clearly reduce and likely stop erosion rather than precipitate any erosion&#8221; as reported in this Post and Courier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/jan\/26\/judges-ruling-reverses-dhecs-denial-allows-kiawah-\/\">article<\/a>.\u00a0 This statement from the judge clearly rejects reflection upon the history of bulkhead building in South Carolina (and elsewhere) and the tenuous science that shoreline stabilization is based on.\u00a0 Renowned coastal geologist Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey of\u00a0 Duke University calls the Kiawah Spit development project &#8220;madness&#8221; and Miles O. Hayes calls it &#8220;ridiculous.&#8221;\u00a0 Erosion is not simply stopped without differing its forces to other areas.\u00a0 Erosion is not a problem until people build unwisely.\u00a0 Please watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/3208333\">50 Houses on Kiawah Sand<\/a> for expert testimony on this issue.\u00a0 We hope that the Coastal Conservation League will appeal this case again although it will be a hard fight due to their limited funds!\u00a0 Please check out our previous entries about the <a href=\"..\/?cat=6\">Kiawah Spit<\/a> for a history of this issue.\u00a0 Mary Edna Fraser recently flew over this area and gave us this stunning photograph of the sand that KDP hopes to subdivide:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.celiedailey.com\/pictures\/kiawahspitjan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Kiawah Spit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.celiedailey.com\/pictures\/kiawahspitjan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"792\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After another round of appeals, Kiawah Development Partners (KDP) has been permitted to build a bulkhead that will &#8220;clearly reduce and likely stop erosion rather than precipitate any erosion&#8221; as reported in this Post and Courier article.\u00a0 This statement from the judge clearly rejects reflection upon the history of bulkhead building in South Carolina (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kiawahspit","tag-coastal-conservation-league","tag-nancy-vinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}