City of Encinitas Has Solution for Leucadia Flooding Problems

Anticipating the coming rainy season, the Encinitas government has developed a solution for the persistent flooding problems in Leucadia. 

The city will soon receive several mating pairs of specially trained beavers from a supplier in Oregon. 

Beavers are known to build dams that form ponds in creeks. Contrary to freeing the water flow, the dams slow it. The beavers soon to arrive in Encinitas have been trained to do the opposite of what their evolutionary instinct demands. Rather than building obstructions that restrict water flow, the Encinitas beavers will remove blockages and form tunnels that increase drainage. 

The Oregon beaver supplier has had remarkable success in reversing the beavers’ natural instincts. There are few behavioral changes in the animal kingdom to match the achievement. 

Encinitas residents, repeat visitors and passers-through are all too familiar with the floods that occur in various city locations even after light rains. The unusually heavy rains of the 2019-20 winter produced floods and damage of epic proportions. 

The city had to do something. That something will be the arrival of several pairs of problem-solving beavers.

 

One Device Helps Meet Two Encinitas Climate Change Mitigation Goals 

Walk and ride at the same time! 

Who would have thought that two activities that relieve climate change could be combined in one device? With an elliptical bike, you can double your reduction of greenhouse gas emissions! 

There is a broad consensus among climate scientists that climate change is real and largely caused by human habitation. They point to overwhelming evidence to support that assertion. 

Some say necessity in the mother of invention. Sociologists contend that view is too narrow. They say the existing culture base is the fertile soil from which invention grows. 

Of course, walking has been with us since we became erect and bipedal. The bicycle didn’t come along until the mid-1800s. Then the elliptical bicycle was introduced in the early 2000s. 

That line of development supports sociologists’ contention that the existing culture base is the mother of invention. But if an exercise and transportation device can mitigate climate change, why quibble with how it came about? 

In recent years, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging walking and bicycling has been a principal part of the Encinitas Climate Action Plan. Elliptical bicycles can speed the city’s success.

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 Tell the Truth, Lose Your City of Encinitas Job

What? The Encinitas city fire marshal wants to tell the state attorney general the truth about a proposed public works project? You mean she wants to say that the project would increase emergency response times and endanger public safety? That the project violates various statutes, codes, rules and regulations?

The gall! The audacity! The temerity! The disobedience!

She refuses to go along to get along!

The honesty! The honor! The integrity! The responsibility!

What does the city do about that principled long-term employee? Well, they fire her, of course!

Never mind that she did various jobs well for more than three decades. Never mind that she started at the bottom of the ladder, worked hard and got promotions, awards and pay increases. Never mind that she was the dedicated fire marshal of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Del Mar for five years.

Here she wants to tell the truth. She refuses to take part in the cover up. She refuses to collude. The city can’t have that honesty. The city can’t have that integrity. The fire marshal is not a team player. She must go!

Add one more lawsuit to the growing stack on the city’s plate.