I'd dive in a fish farm.
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"Google Earth" (used as a verb) Dutch Springs. It is now surrounded by warehouses.
Taking all values from the internet (and using lowball estimates) we could guesstimate the value of Dutch as a hole in the ground that could handle all the garbage that those warehouses could possibly generate.
1 Acre = 43,560 sqft
40 acres = 1.7 million sqft
at an average depth of 30 feet, the hole in the ground comes out to be a bit over 50 million cuft
compacted municipal waste is given as 20-25 pounds per cuft.
so we have 1,000 million pounds as capacity, or 500,000 tons
average cost to landfill municipal solid waste (MSW) is $53.72 per ton.
$25M. That is going to be a hard number to overcome for divers.
The quarry is in the dead center of a huge trucking operation. Backhauling MSW from some areas of the country could be stupidly lucrative...
You want a good alternative? Buy out the fish farm that keeps Willow Springs green. Home Page
Yup - but it’s the first time I saw anything about anybody trying to preserve the diving there.The article has no specifics. It would be nice to see PADI make an investment to benefit and support East coast divers, but I'm not holding my breath (well-trained by PADI!).
Maybe they mean visits, and not individual divers. But it is a popular place that draws divers from a VERY wide radius.Article has this quote: "The site is very popular and receives nearly half a million divers every year. "
That can't be correct, can it?