JohnT
January 29, 2019, 2:50am
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I should have brought this argument here, instead of the “air traffic controller” thread by AE, but the biggest flaw in the wall strategy is political: Attempting to build this thing could cost the GOP Texas , at least for an election cycle or two.
In another post, same thread, I ask the following:
Architects! Tell me your wall design plans for this section of the Rio Grande!
Do you build an impenetrable barrier across the lake between Falcon Mesa and Siesta Shores, thereby blocking access to the RG from the cove?
Do you build an impenetrable barrier along the shoreline, allowing access to the cove from the Rio Grande, but blocking land access to the cove?
This section, north of Falcon State Park . Do you build your wall on the Rio Grande, or wind it around the various coves and such?Do we lose our State Park?
What are your design plans to keep FM 2098 Spur access road open, and on American territory, if you decide to build along the shoreline?
Explain where the wall is going to be placed as to not affect operations of the Falcon State Dam . If placed on the shoreline, does the wall go on top of the dam?
How does the wall impact the 1944 Treaty for the Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande , which governs the use of the Falcon Lake facilities for both countries?
Oh! And you have to block all this water access in a way which is politically acceptable to the largest state the GOP carries.
(And we haven’t even begun to explore what the fuck happens in El Paso , Laredo , the farms of McAllen and Pharr , Brownsville , and more. How is it even possible to build an impenetrable physical barrier which allows water flow throughs of the 10s of thousands of gallons an hour needed for irrigation purposes?)