Anthony, imagine right across where you tend to fish from, 50 large container ships a week coming & dropping off goods. You've seen a lot of the ships before, leaky, bilge pumps running out all kinds of crap like oils, Chinese Nuclear Spider Crabs (the ones that eat up the Bloo Crabs
), all kinds of foreign sea creatures that don't mix in well with our environment. All that sludge & crap spilling on top of the clam beds in the Bay. All the extra traffic on the roads.It would be destroyed.
The Bay isn't very clear right now. Up where I am, it's almost as dirty as the waters around Bridgeport CT. It should & could be a lot cleaner than that...
So if we're going to ruin the Bay putting in a container port, why bother having all the sewers go in to reduce the crap (litterally) that goes into the bay?
This is all being put together for about 300-400 jobs? A highly automated Container Port. Not something with hundreds of longshoremen moving gear like 40 years ago in a busy port but
a couple hundred people pushing buttons and pulling levers. Oh yeh, and so someone can get their name on the port
...
You want to add 300-400 solid jobs to the economy? You want to add skilled technical positions in IT (like what you were studying) - build an office area. I bet for the couple mil they're talking about for an Environmental Impact Study, they could attract some corporations to have regional offices there instead. Imagine going to work in a nice office complex on the water! Running down at lunch and tossing a line in would be real cool
Seriously dude - it's a bad idea for the Bay.