Editor:
Should it be back to school for Sechelt council?
Thurber estimates one sinkhole per year but are unable to predict where it will occur. Assuming a random distribution and based on that assumption, the probability of a sinkhole appearing on any particular four-sq.-metre patch of land on a 200-by-400-metre subdivision in any particular two-hour period works out to around one in 200 million. The chances of winning the lottery are around one in 15 million. The chance of a major earthquake happening in the next 24 hours is approximately one in 100,000. Couldn’t the council have let the residents leave in dignity, with a suitable waiver? There is admittedly the fact that the residents could trigger a collapse while moving, but the fact that Seawatch Lane has just supported 40 truckloads of fill would suggest otherwise. You could also factor in a probability density function based on known activity, but the principle remains the same.
Am I missing something?
Richard Mitchell, Sechelt
