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Mother Nature's face

Staff Writer Kelly Cuculiansky's Dec. 20 report concerning the proposed Port Orange Marina was very well written. I would like to add the following in opposition to the long arm of greed that continues to reach out and destroy or alter Mother Nature along the way.

As envisioned in 2004, but objected to by some of us, Port Orange is now proceeding to make a facial change on Mother Nature. The so-called Riverwalk project calls for a drastic alteration of the Halifax River shoreline at the western end of the Dunlawton Bridge. A City Council member has stated that Port Orange needs a marina. Perhaps this is because Daytona Beach has one and we are in competition, which is hardly a good reason to scar Mother Nature.

We have a finite acreage of wetland in America. To lower that by landfill or construction thereon is tantamount to creating an imbalance in nature. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers becomes involved whenever a proposal arises to cover a wetland. Mitigation enters the picture, and the proposer for change must show a like amount of land owned somewhere that will be connected at his or her expense to an adjacent wetland. Believe me, this is far from being an easy task. I have such a work-in-progress on my Minnesota farm, and the end is not in sight.

IRV MORRILL, Port Orange

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