This is Breaking News 7. Please pay attention to the following. Breaking News 6 begins with my devil's advocate position against trucking. Trucking of course is at the moment the only solution. Stay with Breaking News 6, and I will continue my concerns on trucking. This is Breaking News 7, so stay with me.

don/

Here's the hottest news anyone has seen. Brand new off the wire this morning.

I found it extraordinarily interesting, in fact, all 80 pages. However, the following list even surprises me. Look at it, memorize it, frame it, and hang it on your wall, because this is the list of the major players.

With hope, seriousness will soon evolve. Love all you guys and gals, though some of you can surely drive me crazy... don/

HOTEL LIST
Source: Latest revision of planned sewage treatment plant Aug. 2008
Hotel Name/ Catchment Area V_? /Beds Per Hotel
AUGUST 2008
Beach Front Hamlet Villa V2 15 (15 Villas)
Black Durgon Inn V2 18
Captain Don's V2 180
Hamlet Oasis V2 64
Hato Hotel Resort North V2 500
Hato South Development V2 500

Buddy Dive V3 148
Den Laman Apartments V3 42
Lions Dive V3 76
Sand Dollar Condominium Resort V3 210
Sunset Beach Resort V3 458
Sunset Beach Resort V3 198

Almar B. V. V1 28
Bellisima V1 96
Bonacara Resort V1 56
Eden Beach V1 96
Emely Apartments V1 26
Harbour Village V1 64
Hotel Rochalina V1 36
Lizard Inn V1 24
Playa Lechi Residence V1 20
Sea Side Apartments V1 48
Sun Rentals Bonaire Apartments V1 98
Wanna Dive V1 32
Yacht Club Apartments V1 42
Carib Inn V4 26
Caribean Court Bonaire V4 102
Cyndany Lodge V4 36
Dive Inn Apartments V4 14
Divi Flamingo V4 258
Plaza Resort V4 462
Sonrisa Apartments V4 24
The Lodge V4 24
Tropical Inn V4 24
Zambezi V4 34

Bel Mar Oceanfront V5 120
Belafonte V5 56
Bonaire Sun Oceanfront Apartments V5 42
Coco Palm Garden V5 64
Great Escape V5 20
Happy Holiday Homes V5 54
Kings Beach Resort V5 270
Light House Beach Resort V5 160
Windsocks Apartments V5 64
Esmeralda Beach Resort V5 240

Port Bonaire Apartments V6 88
Airport area V6 400
Airport area V6 200
Plaza Resort V6 412


WHICH IS YOUR HOTEL?
AND WHICH HOTELS ARE GREEN?

Thanks, Don! And yes if they aren't "green," do you really want to stay there and spend money and leave your sewage as a memento to the reef?

Perhaps it is time to develop several key questions that visitors and tourists can ask their resorts, hotels, and properties in order to determine if they are truly "green" or just posing to be "green" by virtue of doing business on the island of Bonaire.

I will contribute the first question to ask:

"Mr/Ms Resort Owner, Will you be trucking your sewage away from the shoreline beginning this month?"

More questions needed to develop the "green" questionnaire.

What does the v1, v2, v3 etc mean?
I'm slow sumtimes

Does the second question become,,,what is your tank made of and is it regularly inspected for leaks? We use big ole plastic chambers on the Texas Gulf coast and they don't leak, but I've seen cement tanks crack from subsidence and ground movements (or getting drunk and driving the F9500 Pickup TRUCK with 18 ft lift kits and monster tires over it)

Love
The Marquis of Macaroni

Divi already trucks stuff out. cb

Joe - it looks like V stands for vicinity or something along those lines. Look at who is grouped together and you will see that they are all around the same area.

Hi Pauline,
more simple ;-)

- From where is your energy and water coming and to where my poo and other waste will go?
- How is this reflected in my bill?

Is anybody trying to put all this in existing tourist web pages for potential visitors?

How I can listen on the www to the upcoming radio-show on the issue on 07.Sep.2008? The existing links and advices are not working.

All the Best

Detlef

I was guessing the last number was the number of people that the facility could hold?

Meryl - that is beds per facility/hotel.