Please note that by using the term ‘Black liquor’ I am in know way referring to Obama. I don't want the Reverend Al on me.
Posted on 08/18/2011 8:11:51 PM PDT by BBell
The paper mill lnked to a substantial fish kill in the Pearl River system cautiously admitted responsibility Wednesday, as the trail of dead fish reached Lake Pontchartrain and a reservoir near Jackson, Miss., was opened in an attempt to flush the pollutants out.
Officials from the Temple-Inland plant in Bogalusa acknowledged that a mixture of pulp from the paper-manufacturing process and unspecified chemicals poured into the Pearl River late last week at levels exceeding the plant’s environmental permits and might have depleted oxygen levels in the Pearl and its tributaries.
Numerous species of fish and shellfish, in large numbers, have turned up dead in the Pearl River system since the weekend as a result.
With thoughts of last year’s massive BP oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico close at hand, government officials mobilized to coordinate a cleanup effort.
“This discharge is doing significant damage to St. Tammany Parish,” St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis said Wednesday afternoon
“We need to assist our citizens whose livelihood depends upon our waterways. The Pearl River is a home to a complex ecosystem that supports fisheries, tourism and transportation.”
The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation inspected the lake and spotted some of the same types of dead fish that have scattered the banks of the West Pearl River and adjacent waterways. However, because tests found that oxygen levels in the lake are still normal, foundation officials said the lake is probably not polluted.
Tides probably carried the fish into the lake, and so much more water passes through the Rigolets, which connects the West Pearl, Middle Pearl and East Pearl rivers to Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne, than the river that the discharge is less of a threat, said foundation director John Lopez.
‘Black liquor’ released
Officials are referring to the material in the water as “black liquor,” a byproduct
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Please note that by using the term ‘Black liquor’ I am in know way referring to Obama. I don't want the Reverend Al on me.
But we CAN see the town of Bush on the map you posted - very near the river. Thus we may conclude (drum roll)
IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!!!!
peeps been talking bout this everywhere, and there POed just like me, cause i bass fish that river all the time. its just 15 minutes away—SAD..
Will the abuses of ‘big paper’ never cease?
You’re hilarious.
Well the NY Times is still around so I don’t expect the abuses to end anytime soon.
LOL— Bush is really tiny place- theres a fish house resturant and 1 gas station i think and a bar room.. the city of Sun is just about 1 mile away with 2 gas stations.. i live in frankinton- on “Bogue Chitto” means big creek in Choctaw indians—lol
I took a ride up 59 to the Honey Island exit. I’ve put in there and I wanted to take a look. There is a sign and a cop and the sign reads authorized personnel only. The place was loaded with trucks and trailers. I assume that is where they are putting boats in to help with the clean up.
In the picture they just look like carp or trash fish anyway. It isn’t like they were trout or anything good.
Oh, Lord, that place used to stink ALL the time, all by itself. I imagine it still does, regardless of any dead fish.
Franklinton? Yous some serious rednecks up there.
yeah, your talkin about the “pearl river turn around”— i havent been down that way in awhile- thats down there by standard gravel company. ive heard all kinds of stories how this happened but dont know if there true or not
Well that’s just one picture. There is some good bass fishing up the Pearl. Lots of swamp.
LOL- yes we are- you get into liberalville (or choclate city) across the lake—lol
Holy Cow!
Black liquor is Sodium Hydroxide that has been used to wash the lignin out of wood chips.
Nasty stuff!
the same mill had another chemical spill awile back- a train car busted open somehow and covered the city of bobalusa with orange dust- they had law suits like crazy- it was some bad stuff, they had freakin all kinds of agents running everybody out of town- it was a site
those chemicals was be getting to me cause i can’t spell for sh-t-lol
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