Sinking old Kelowna bridge pontoons is 'ludicrous,' environmentalists say

Recycle concrete? To what end? It's pretty inert, isn't it?

Boats are sunk all the time to provide new surfaces on which marine life can grow. They're cleaned appropriately first so there's minimal impact from onboard chemicals, and life flourishes.

Without some justification for a massive operation to move these pontoons, the demand to recycle them is ludicrous.

Screw that. Give them to me and I will make house boats out of them.
Try to sink me now!!!

There has got to be all sorts of cool things you could do with those.
(Read: All sorts of ways you could get into trouble with them.)

environmentalists = people who are paid to bitch about nothing

Oooh! Oooh! I got a better Idea.
How about making a Kelowna regatta?
They can use the concrete pontoons instead of boats!
Think about it. These things are huge. You could put a whole crap ton of people on each, give them all a big oar and have races.
Alcohol would be involved of course.

how about a big old concrete toboggan race down the ski hill this winter

how about a big old concrete toboggan race down the ski hill this winter


Ahahah!! good one! We can one-up the Japanese and their girly "ride the log down the hill."

Lloyd Manchester is an idiot. Cement is not a reversable product and the only thing you can make out of concrete are smaller rocks.

I think the environmentalists should chain themselves
to the pontoons. It's a tree-hugger type of tradition.

Glub.

Blow that piece of crap thorn in my side traffic nightmare demon bridge sky fucking high

Recycling concrete isn't a new idea by any stretch of the imagination but there has to be some economics behind it. The price to haul those things out of the water and to then get them onto land and to a recycling site would be astronomical.

I'm not a marine biologist by any means but there must be some value in breaking them down (blowing them up) and using them as an artificial reef.

I thought they were kicking around the idea of using them for a large floating marina, with floating lakeside restaurants, pubs etc... ...what happened to that plan?

Not to mention all the carbon emissions from the machines to do the work.

Wouldn't that be kewl!! Now there's an idea.

Mabey the enviro guy has investments in the concrete recycle biz.