Sinking Towns
A town in Oklahoma is at risk from cave-ins due to extensive mining. Crazy. Its obsolescence on the scale of a town. Find a mine, build a town, and in time you pollute/destroy the area so much that no one can live there. But by then the mine is closed, and few people want to live there anyways. Wasteful if you ask me. Never mind the damage done to the planet, how much does it cost to build a city that won’t be used in 20 years?
My high school is sinking. At a rate of 0.5-1cm a year. A lack of forethought with the foundation (its built on a filled in swamp). Rather than correct the problem, they took to patching the cracks in the walls each year till the building is depreciated and they can build another.
January 29th, 2007 at 10:47 am
The interesting thing about Ithaca High School sinking is that not only are they doing nothing to correct the matter despite the fact that pipes constantly burst from the stress (Kulp was closed for a week last year after the tunnels were filled with water from a pipe being hewn in two) as well as a whole slew of other related problems, but they are, in fact, planning on adding in two whole new buildings to the premises. They are planning on spending ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money on these new structures that will need to be replaced in 20 years time regardless as the land will continue to swallow them whole. It’s obvious to me that the high school is nothing more than a sunk cost (haha, pun) on the part of the school district. The archetecture is typical of Californian schools even though it is smack dab in the middle of the northeast, which not only causes horrible amounts of discomfort for students in the colder months, but also, I am sure, costs a certainly indecent amount of money to heat. It’s time for a new high school to be built. One that is on stable ground, and one that is more energy efficient.