Posted on 09/08/2005 9:08:19 AM PDT by tjbravo
Van Heerden and Rodney Mallett, communications director for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, say there do not appear to be any choices other than to pump the water into Lake Pontchartrain or the Mississippi River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico, a key maritime spawning ground. "I don't see how we could treat all that water," Mallett said. The result could be an second wave of disaster for southern Louisiana, said Harold Zeliger, a Florida-based chemical toxicologist and water quality consultant. "In effect, it's going to kill everything in those waters," he said.
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If it's too much trouble to treat the water, and if nature is so resilient, then why do we bother with laws against dumping? Why can't we pour the rest of the paint down the drain? Why do we pay to have our burnt oil disposed of? Why can't we drain the radiator antifreeze in the yard? Why can't we bury our trash in a hole in the ground? And, what in the HECK have they been doing all along with the millions of dollars diverted from our paychecks to Environmental Protection and Environmental Quality? If they're not using it to clean up crap like this, does that mean we get a refund?
Can you imagine the outcry from the usual suspects if a red state with a Republican governor tried to do this?
If the two options for the polluted water are "in your house" or "in the nearby lake", the choice is pretty simple.
won't be eating any seafood or fish from the Gulf anytime in the near future...if at all!
Signed up just to post this crap....So what enviro wacko group you with...
C'mon. Think outside the box. There's no such thing as a problem that can't be solved with a few hundred billion dollars from the U.S. taxpayer.
(steely)
As a matter of fact, I DO dump my antifreeze in my yard.
When I read his comments, I came away with the impression that he's asking the same questions I would.
If NOLA is permitted to dump its 'toxic water' into [insert body of water here], why are the rest of us made to comply with EPA rules and regs?
Your comment borders on the brainless. The NO sewage treatment system has no capacity to treat 40 billion (by the figures I have seen) gallons of water. There isn't a treatment system in the world with that capacity. It is the equivalent of treating the sewage of a city of 400 million people.
There is no alternative to pumping it into the Lake.
EPA Enforcement officials are on their way to NO preparing to sue the city for violating Stormwater permits.
"In effect, it's going to kill everything in those waters," he said."
I'm no marine biologist, but I doubt this? Anybody out there have any insight into this?
My thinking is twofold:
1) Some amount of the gas, diesel, etc.. will have surely evaporated by the time it reaches the gulf.
2) There must be a tremendous water flow coming out of the Misssissippi which would drastically dilute the polutants.
I'm not saying this isn't a bad thing. I'm just questioning the magnitude.
See #10.
Don't eat oysters from the NO delta for a few years
Where are the Greenies when we need them most. MIA of course since this is a Dem affair.
Not a good idea. Paint will go a long way toward stopping up your sewer system. Maybe pour it down someone else's drain.
It is blatant hyperbole.
Me too. I hate shoveling snow.
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