It's a greenwash!
As reported, yesterday, and with its teat still being squeezed today, Kelly Slater has joined hands with resort developers to build a twenty-acre tank in the Coachella Valley, near Frankie Sinatra and Elvis’ old hang-out Palm Springs and home to a sort of retirement music festival with acts twenty-years beyond their peak.
“The largest, rideable open-barrel, human-made wave in the world,” according to promotional literature.
And Slater’s pool is only one of three being built.
Three pools, different techs, different angles, different pro surfer touts etc.
Read, here, here, here and here.
(Kelly Slater was made sad by coverage and sent DM to BeachGrit that read, “You guys love nothing more than clickbait.”)
The area’s newspaper, The Desert Sun, has paid particular attention to the Slater country club which is going to be built, approvals pending, between 58th Avenue and Avenue 60 and across from Andalusia, in La Quinta.
A quote that I enjoyed very much from the story comes from Noah Hahn, a partner at the resort developer Meriwether Cos.
“Kelly Slater and the WSL are … the perfect partners to feature as we create a revolutionary new way to live and travel.”
According to The Desert Sun, the resort, called Coral Mountain, “the ethos of the community is designed to revolve around the raw natural setting with a focus on sustainability.”
The pool will require 18-million gallons of water, significantly less, says the developer, than the 18-hole golf course that was previously approved for the site.
Revolutionary? Sustainable?
Let’s do a fun little math exercise.
What’s the rainfall in the Coachella Valley?
Two-and-a-half inches or sixty-seven mm?
18,000,000 gallons fills the pool.
One gallon of water = 231 cubic inches.
Multiply that by eighteen-million and y’get…
A little over four billion inches.
Divide by the yearly rainfall and…
If the pool was filled by rain (sustainable!), it would take one-point-six billion years to fill it.
Even eco-paradises need a little help from man, yes?
Did you grow up with kelly!!! Worth telling everyone again mate. Recant some wild stories of some rebellious floridian childhood hijinks please Sean
Well ? What’s the info genius? Im an Aussie so don’t really know fuck all about how you get water in the desert in America. Snow melt supplies LA and most of southern California from what I’ve been led to understand so if it’s rainfall Kelly is fucked I guess . Unless it’s bore water ? ( from underground in case that is something else you don’t know about either) Let’s have your lesson on where water comes from.
In other words, a typical Spring weather pattern for two out of every three years. It was a beautiful day in SoCal today, and the surf was good. Rejoice!
Well I hope certainly hope he can fuck off and take his scraggly deadshit bird and dumbfuck guru with him.
Let alone his masters, and their masters….
come to oz and find out, faguar.
A wavepool in your dessert? Waiter!
It’s only been Westie Rubbo harping on about it.
Yes that’s very true
To which I have owned up the second (about 7hrs ago) I saw Sean V’s comment and didn’t want him to accidentally besmirche anyone else’s innocent names…
They would be building lakes in the desert regardless of Kellys involvement.
It’s just that it’s going to have a wave in a corner now.
20 years ago it would’ve been a wakeboard towline, 40 years ago bumperboats…
Pretty sure I was the only one who used some unflattering words to describe his girlfriend.
The rest are innocent of this as far I know.
My reasoning was due to her awful contribution (along with the ‘guru’) on the wsl thing months ago, which was deleted by Paul ‘negs’ Blart immediately and only resurrected due to this latest obscene pool plan, as people seem to think Kelly actually reads BG and I wished to flush him out.
Similar to giving shit to politicians.
Cheers
Flush him out! Ha, You really rate your own commentary don’t You.
Not at all really, just rantings that quite honestly I feel aren’t all that offensive. Sticks and stones, as the old saying goes.
It seems some are more sensitive though.
And in my opinion, any attempt to flush him out is better than none at all…
Cheers
It’s not offensive. Just unnecessary cruel, but ultimately just hollow weak words from a faceless man hiding behind his keyboard.
sums up this whole site.
Yaaawn
Go and rewatch the wsl video of them and the guru at the pool…
Just bloody awful
A complete pack of crap talking blowarses
Goodness knows why he’d let her be shown giving her ridiculous opinion on his boards etc, and why he’d think having a guru in the public eye is a good idea.
Best piece the WSL released. The things that you hated is exactly what made it good.
A flawed man struggling to find meaning and direction in life.
Its a common theme for men of Kelly’s age (myself included) The honesty and willingness to not just put on a “show” for the public eye was very refreshing.
Hahahahaha
Fuck that’s funny
I suggest some cactus juice etc or similar psychedelic to show you the truth of your poorly guided ways……
Good luck with your struggle by the way (though it still does seem unfortunate if you think being a follower and excuser of Kelly will get you entrance to a single afternoon of riding his pond).
Righto Westie an ”excuser/follower” you just don’t get it do you…
Regardless of your inability to comprehend, moving forward you’ll need to put some meat to your fuck Kelly rhetoric if you want to hang around here.
Do you own this Mall ?
Or is this your inner Paul Blart coming out ?
The “meat to my(sic) fuck Kelly rhetoric” is solid…
Though such language is yours and yours alone
Pretty sure i didn’t say anything worse than accentuating the well known obvious truth about Kellys bird being a pain in the arse talking shit on the wsl thing that also had an unfortunate showing of the “guru”
Criiiipes it was shockingly bad…
I like the Paul Blart analogy and I do hold the keys to the back door of the Mall.
Ok Dr. Stu
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Date night?
Getting him primed for you Blart…
I bet you are you dirty old bugger but I’m not really into stirring another mans porridge or Cattle beasts for that matter.
Enjoy your evening, I’m venturing out for a brew!
of course kelly reads this site. he reads everything written about him and only two /three publications would even talk about him. he’s less famous than david charvet.
I still it hard to believe that a busy bloke like him would have the time or the inclination to look at BG
But oh well
In that case
It’s all fair in love, war and politics.
And Kelly’s always been the biggest politician in the surfing world and his newest wave pool idea is quite obscene and a kick in the face of millions who rely on the limited quantities of water from where the pools supplies will be drawn
kids no longer surf or think it’s cool. only val’s will pay to surf this.
Lots of Young Frothers are body boarding these days.
Stay in school, aspiring pros. You’re going to need to be able to plunk down $1m minimum for shelter within reach of ANY wave shortly.
Couple of things you got wrong here:
1. Chas is a drunk American cunt
2. Using “fags” kind of undermines your bordering on reasonable point of view. Though I don’t particularly remember a lot of railing on his girlfriend. She seems fine.
skaters heaven in ten years when that thing is bankrupt and bone dry. maybe even sooner….
No way. Doesn’t get that far. Will be a BMX heaven in 14 months when they stall out after pushing some dirt.
With all the coral reefs currently dying the name they chose for the development is fitting.
Would it not be snow melt rather than rainfall filling this pool like most of the water in Californias dams and water sources ?
Coachella pumps water from the underground aquifers for most of their needs. Big battle between a local indian tribe about who rightfully owns it.
Hey Derek, you need to recheck your math!! You fail to realize that when 2.5 inches of rain falls it falls over the entire size of the pool which is 20 acres in this case. So that 2.5 inches now becomes over 300 million cubic inches. So your billions of years of rain fall to fill the pool now comes down to 13. Still not acceptable to be considered a “green” approach but not as bad as you think!
Even without turning the wave on the evaporation rate in Palm Springs will empty those 2.5 inches of water in a week. I would guess that is sped up to at least a foot a day running the pool.
Not sure how much evaporation rate would speed up due to the wave action. I think a foot a day might be a bit much but who knows. Would be a good study to do and understand before hand. I’m sure they will have some windage loss as well. There is a good study about the Salton Sea near Palm Springs which measures 6 ft/yr from evaporation loss. My guess is this pool will loose 50-100 million gallons a year from evaporation. More than the average golf course!!
God you’re good! I studied economics and history, avoided maths.
Kelly – you don’t get the website!!
DSRT surf justifies their pool by saying they will remove grass to offset the pool’s water needs. They claim that 1.3 holes of the golf course uses the amount of water needed to fill the pool.
It’s simply amazing how people will justify an untenable or contradictory position for a greenback.
Any of you guys ever flown to a foreign country and couldn’t take a shit the whole time you were there? And then when u got home you took a shit so big it made you question your sexuality? Yeah me neither
imagine how much chlorine they will need to use.
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