La Quinta's proposed wave park is a terrible idea in the midst of drought
What happened to saving water?
18-million-gallon wave park … 16.6-acre private use wave pool.
What?
I was absolutely appalled when I read the Desert Sun article Nov. 12.
The article focused on the 80-foot lighting proposal (what about the Dark Skies plan) and concerns from adjacent communities about the impact of traffic and noise. What about water use and other environmental effects?
I find it ironic that the developer is working with the city of La Quinta and planning commission for approval during excessive drought in Southern California and the Southwest — and during negotiations by 200 countries seeking solutions at the COP26 climate summit. My response was simply “you have got to be kidding!”
I would like to know how much water will evaporate daily and what its source is.
The planning commission should not approve developments that include manmade lakes with lakefront homes, plus water feature parks. We are in an extremely serious situation with agriculture, wildfires and bird migration all experiencing the effects of water shortages.
The decision to move forward with the wave park is irresponsible, short sighted and counter to the efforts of sensible individuals and local and state agencies that are committed to saving and carefully using our valuable water resources.
Jan Olson, Palm Desert
A new handout for illegal immigrants
From Fox News, something that I believe everyone should be made aware of:
"Tucked away on page 1647 of the Build Back Better Act, the Democrats' social spending package, is a provision that would repeal the Social Security number requirement to obtain child tax credits. This change would expand child tax credits to parents of illegal immigrants who don't have Social Security numbers."
This could ultimately cost taxpayers billions of dollars. Wonder why we have an influx crossing the border?
Kay Hillery, Indian Wells
Democrats' skepticism of Trump proven right
Richard A. Lanpheer's letter of Nov. 16 attempted to establish a false equivalency between Aaron Rodgers' belief in crackpot remedies to both prevent and cure COVID, in lieu of medical science and vaccination, and the initial skepticism expressed by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Andrew Cuomo in connection with vaccines first being developed to prevent COVID.
Biden, Harris and Cuomo recommended at the time that these vaccines be tested by labs outside the Trump administration because they didn't trust the Trump FDA.
Mr. Lampheer must have missed the disclosures last week that the Trump administration manipulated and suppressed CDC research and guidance in connection with COVID, solely to advance the political ambitions of Donald J. Trump, who believed that full transparency in connection with the severity and the spread of COVID would hurt his re-election.
It would appear that at the time, the suggestion of independent testing of the vaccines was not ill-founded.
Franc Martarella, Rancho Mirage
This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: La Quinta wave park is a terrible idea in the midst of drought
