{"id":618,"date":"2008-10-26T11:32:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T15:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2011-07-20T17:52:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T21:52:57","slug":"lipstick-on-a-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Lipstick on a Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"

The initial draft\/potential\/possible plan provided for the power station building was as shown below (click on any of these images for a larger view):
\"\"<\/a>While ugly and just waiting for the grafitti to appear some night, it is a realistic view of the size and shape of some of what the station would need to have: ventilation louvres, fencing, concrete, a huge concrete rectangle as the view from the Moon River – and it would dominate the panorama as you look across the falls from the picnic area on the north side.<\/p>\n

Then the developer thought that by piling rocks up the side we would think the entire power station was buried, and they provided this fantasy-land rendering:
\"\"<\/a>They seem to have now agreed this was completely not to scale and omitted some important details.<\/p>\n

So this next rendering was provided. They now seem to agree that even Muskoka trees are not going to grow out of the concrete top, and a fence will be required along the side so people don’t fall down the 15′ of rocks piled steeply up the side of the station (hey, how did they “forget” to include the required downstream safety boom):
\"\"<\/a>While pleasing to look at, this rendering is still fraudulently deceptive; it is completely not to scale (compare it to the top image, which is real-world), makes it look like the rocks piled up the side of the concrete bunker are Muskoka bedrock, neglects to show the 50′-wide water intake upstream. So look at the next image…<\/p>\n

As you can see from our marked-up image below, their most-recent rendering is still more wishful thinking than reality. Please click on the image to review some of the omissions for yourself:
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The initial draft\/potential\/possible plan provided for the power station building was as shown below (click on any of these images for a larger view):While ugly and just waiting for the grafitti to appear some night, it is a realistic view of the size and shape of some of what the station would need to have: […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}