Is $3,800 per linear foot a reasonable cost to build a wall?
Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 10 months ago to Ask the Gulch
According to recent funding announcements $1 billion is being allocated for a 50 mile section of wall on the US-Mexico border.
On that budget, it would cost $3 million to fence in a one acre lot.
On that budget, it would cost $3 million to fence in a one acre lot.
Given the way DoD tracks expendatures and allocation of Overhead costs $3,800 appears to be correct. amount. When they allocated funds like this all related expenses (personnel, transportation, etc. are allocated to the project. So it does not surprise me that it is this high per linear foot. If there are land acquisition costs these get rolled in also. I I can find the actual breakout of the funds by category I'll post that so we can see just how the expense was arrived at.
But your house did include land and transportation costs, so there are some things in common.
I doubt anything you find in the government funding detail will resemble something any rational person would consider reasonable.
Just a few dirty surplus nukes exploded on the border would force immigrants to change routing and solve much of the immigration problem.