Editor:
This Seawatch debacle makes me wonder. Can engineering firms be trusted to determine where it is safe to build? Apparently not always. Are they under pressure from developers to OK things even when there is an element of doubt?
What would have happened to the Seawatch land if it had been decided, before construction began, that building there was not a good idea? Would there have been an outcry from the “development at any cost” crowd? From the owner of the land in question? If the land was better left alone, could it have become a park or nature preserve?
And can we trust the report of the engineering firm that OK’d building a huge hotel on top of Gibsons aquifer? A firm hired by the developer?
Just asking.
Anne Miles, Gibsons
