Dam up the Mersey; You Say.THE ECHO (August 12) talked about the looming looming: see mirage. financial crisis at the city council, and discussed reducing services. Surely with the building of the new Liverpool Liverpool, city (1991 pop. 448,300), NW England, on the Mersey River near its mouth. It is one of Britain's largest cities. A large center for food processing (especially flour and sugar), Liverpool has a variety of industries, including the manufacture of electrical One shopping centre, the increase in rateable-values as a result of the development ought to take care of that problem. Secondly, there has been much discussion about the building of a second bridge between Widnes and Runcorn. Why does it have to be a bridge? Can we not take an example from the American Hoover dam Hoover Dam, 726 ft (221 m) high and 1,244 ft (379 m) long, on the Colorado River between Nev. and Ariz.; one of the world's largest dams. Built between 1931 and 1936 by the U.S. , put a barrage across the Mersey to provide the road on top, and to generate electricity. This would contribute more to the environment and provide an income at the same time. It might even enable the new crossing to be toll free and permit the old one to remain so. Mr N N Heller, Liverpool 16. |
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