danaeb
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Is it still paradise on el Mogote?
Now that I know my house in El Centenario is probably OK, I wonder about the construction out on the Mogote. Anybody heard anything about that?
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comitan
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On the net this morning they were saying that the cranes were still there looking OK.
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Paula
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Comitan, would that be the cranes or the cranes?
Personally I'm on the cranes' side!
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capt. mike
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save the cranes..............use scaffolding and cheap labor.
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comitan
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Sorry Paula constr. cranes.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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msrla
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errrr.......... what construction? I've heard lots of TALK of construction, I've seen the cranes.......but seriously, WHAT construction?
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danaeb
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msrla - here are recent construction photos from their website.
http://paradiseofthesea.com/en/news.html
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msrla
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oops so sorry, thought this was the tecolote beach development, I stand corrected!
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bajajazz
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GRAY WATER PIPE TO MOGOTE
Two weeks ago we cruised the bay in the area south of the now torn-down La Posada and found the bay at that point entirely bisected with several
neoprene pipes held up by floats and running from La Posada to El Mogote. Their purpose is to supply the Mogote golfcourse projects with (hopefully)
treated sewer water. From our house on the hill overlooking Mogote we can see sprinklers running full blast, days on end.
The evening of our cruise there was only a space of about 40 feet in which the array of pipes was deep enough that our shallow-draft boat could cross.
The remainder of the pipe-run was on the surface, effectively shutting off the south end of the bay from any boat with a draft of more than three
feet or so.
Judging by Lencho's photograph, the array of neoprene pipes has been replaced by a single line that one hopes is resting on the bottom of the bay,
else boat navigation will be impaired in a rather serious way.
We've heard no rumors of a shutdown of the work on Mogote but have heard speculation that a causeway is to be built across the bay to service the
tenants of the Infonavit-style casitas going up there. A friend who flew over the project in a helicopter recently, tells us that is exactly what the
project looks like from the air -- a tacky Infonavit development of low-end housing such as might be constructed for the occupancy of the low-paid
workers who are building them.
Destroying the natural values of El Mogote for any purpose is dubious at best; doing it to build what looks like a low-class public housing project
is seriously insane.
And if a causeway is built, how will any but the smallest of boats get in and out of the south end of the bay?
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roamingthroughbaja
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The pipe is actually to take sewage from La Paz to the three tertiary sewage treatment plants which are planned on the magote. The treated water will
be used for irrigation of the golf course. Part of the plan is to treat enough sewage to be able to sell irrigation water back to La Paz. My
question is, what will they do with the sludge and scum from the plants? I haven't heard of any plans for a sanitized composting facility out there.
Hmmm
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Don Alley
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Why would they build a causeway when they have this swell, eco-friendly electric water taxi?
[Edited on 5-5-2008 by Don Alley]
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bajajazz
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Grey water undergrounding
At the time of our bay cruise a couple of weeks ago, we saw bulldozers working into the night in the area adjacent to the old La Posada and assumed
they were undergrounding the pipe needed to supply the Paraiso project with the grey water the developers had contracted for some time ago, in 2006 or
early in 2007, I believe. The grey water contract was the first real indication we'd discovered that the Paraiso development was really going to
happen. Up until that time it had been just talk with no substance.
I still hold to the belief that casino gambling is the eventual goal in the development of El Mogote. The enormous expense of that project cannot be
recouped with sales of casitas, condos, association fees and greens fees. Casino gambling is the only way that project will have positive cash flow.
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