A dewatering permit for the…

A dewatering permit for the CCV absolutely should not be granted. The entire development has been a disaster. The map with the application isn't correct. It's not in the correct location or the correct size.

The fact that the building would need to be continuously dewatered just illustrates that this building shouldn't be built. When I was a child, we would dig two feet to get water on the beach to play. Digging deep enough to build a foundation will just flood with water. If one of the sump pumps fails, there will be immediate water damage which is very concerning.

The building is on environmentally sensitive land. Piping plovers nested on the beach before this development began. Pumping toxins that have been in the sand into the lake is quite frankly a terrible idea. It's going to kill fish and ducks.

Also, with continued worsening flooding and higher lake levels, it doesn't make any sense to build a building on wet sand. The water the applicant wants to pump out is only for now, in spring floods it will be more. When the lake water gets higher, it will be more.

It should just be common sense that if you can dig with a shovel and get water, you shouldn't try and put a building there.