Four to six million dollars for a wall seems a bit much.
Especially for one that is supposed to keep out water.
That’s the estimate for the wall proposed for the Savannah Gully.
But the actual price tag may be more.
The designers of the Great Wall have been asked to go back to the drawing board and figure up the price for a wall that will keep out a Category 3 hurricane. The initial estimate is for one that would keep flood waters at bay during a Category 3 hurricane.
The Savannah Gully has been there since these islands were formed and was mapped in the 1700s.
The Savannah Gully is nature at work.
What isn’t working is the fact that Government has let people develop land around the gully and now they face flooding problems when Mother Nature does her thing.
Putting a wall up to stop the natural flooding is, in our humble opinion, folly. The water will go somewhere.
Can Government guaranty this wall won’t cause additional problems down the line?
We don’t think so.
We would also like to know where the $4 million to $6 million – or more if the wall designers come up with a bigger price tag – is coming from.
That’s an awful lot of money to keep nature from doing, well, what’s natural.
Maybe that money would be better spent relocating the people who were allowed to build near the gully in the first place.
We also have to ask the question, should Government be spending public money to protect private land?
Something has to be done to alleviate the flooding of the Savannah Gully, but attempts to skirt around Mother Nature usually fail.
We would hope Government comes up with another cheaper, more realistic solution for the flooding at the Savannah Gully.
It does make commerce difficult between the capital and the Eastern Districts when we have weather events like Hurricane Wilma and Hurricane Dean.
But again, Grand Cayman has been plagued with those weather events and the gully flooding for centuries.
No wall is going to stop the water. It will just go someplace else.
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