As many of you may know - because I've told you - I spent the last two summers trying to get a plastic bridge built.
what I haven't told you is - that the bridge is in the country - and the old bridge was used as a cattle pass.
The designer decided to pave the bottom of the stream for the new bridge with concrete (the old bridge's stream bed was creek gravel).
Due to heavy runoff last spring, caused by excessive snow last winter, just off the downstream edge of the concrete paving - developed a four foot hole - not condusive for easy passage of cows.
Long story - short - we added a 15 foot concrete apron on the end of the new channel paving - running up the cost to the taxpayers.
Several times I heard people question as to why we paved any of the stream channel with concrete or who's idea was this $200,000 cattle pass. My answer became - Who was the designer? Where did he come from? And what do people in that country think of cows?
The designer's name is unimportant, except to say that he's a Hindu who came to the USA from India, and in India cows are considered holy.
I've since shared this story with the Indian/American designer - including the cow comment - and he laughed as louding at my sense of humor as any other person I've told this story to.
Dan - warped - warped sense of humor!
what I haven't told you is - that the bridge is in the country - and the old bridge was used as a cattle pass.
The designer decided to pave the bottom of the stream for the new bridge with concrete (the old bridge's stream bed was creek gravel).
Due to heavy runoff last spring, caused by excessive snow last winter, just off the downstream edge of the concrete paving - developed a four foot hole - not condusive for easy passage of cows.
Long story - short - we added a 15 foot concrete apron on the end of the new channel paving - running up the cost to the taxpayers.
Several times I heard people question as to why we paved any of the stream channel with concrete or who's idea was this $200,000 cattle pass. My answer became - Who was the designer? Where did he come from? And what do people in that country think of cows?
The designer's name is unimportant, except to say that he's a Hindu who came to the USA from India, and in India cows are considered holy.
I've since shared this story with the Indian/American designer - including the cow comment - and he laughed as louding at my sense of humor as any other person I've told this story to.
Dan - warped - warped sense of humor!
