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Polluted River Covers Brazilian Town with Foam
Reuters ^ | 7/4/2003 | N/A

Posted on 07/05/2003 11:30:17 AM PDT by a_Turk

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A river polluted with waste from Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo covered the streets of a small colonial town with a thick layer of snow-like foam that emits harmful acidic gas on Friday.

A Town Hall official contacted by Reuters said the foam had been affecting Pirapora do Bom Jesus for about a month, but a clogged clear-water channel made the foam levels rise especially high, blocking bridges across the river Tiete which runs through the town and nearby streets.

"It is all a dreadful consequence of Sao Paulo city's pollution," said Mare Brasilio, a Town Hall spokeswoman. "The sulphydric gas caused by the foam provokes respiratory problems among children and elderly people."

Globo Television showed footage of cars being unable to cross the bridges early in the morning, and a bus forcing its way through the white foam that practically covered its body.

The foam lay in private courtyards and was blowing in the wind like snow, sticking to the roofs and television antennas.

The Sao Paulo state governor traveled to the city to discuss how to solve the problem, which apparently derived from interaction between Tiete water, polluted with human and industrial waste, and the water from the local reservoir.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brasil; brazil; foam; pollution
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A resident walks over a river polluted with waste from Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo, with foam covering a bridge and several streets of the small colonial town of Bom Jesus do Pirapora with a thick layer of snow-like material that emits harmful acidic gas, July 4, 2003.


Pollution from a river laden with waste from Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo covers some of the streets of the small colonial town of Bom Jesus do Pirapora with a thick layer of snow-like foam that emits harmful acidic gas, July 4, 2003. A Town Hall official contacted by Reuters said the foam had been affecting Bom Jesus do Pirapora for about a month, but a clogged clear-water channel made the foam levels rise especially high, blocking bridges across the river Tiete, which runs through the town and nearby streets. (BRAZIL OUT, NO SALES) REUTERS/Daniel Pera-Ag O Globo
1 posted on 07/05/2003 11:30:17 AM PDT by a_Turk
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To: Shermy; aristotleman; prairiebreeze; Dog Gone; alethia; AM2000; ARCADIA; ...
WOW ping..
2 posted on 07/05/2003 11:30:55 AM PDT by a_Turk (Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
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To: a_Turk
OK, there's an environmental problem that needs fixing.
3 posted on 07/05/2003 11:35:07 AM PDT by optimistically_conservative (Why isn't Cathryn Crawford pictured at http://www.jerseygop.com/R_babes/)
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To: a_Turk
Looks like another Democratic Snow Job to me.
4 posted on 07/05/2003 11:38:00 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: a_Turk


5 posted on 07/05/2003 11:39:48 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: a_Turk
I saw the video on the news - unreal.

What was that river that caught fire back in Ohio - Penn??

LVM

6 posted on 07/05/2003 11:50:01 AM PDT by LasVegasMac
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To: a_Turk
Holy Moly!
7 posted on 07/05/2003 11:54:23 AM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: a_Turk
Gag - it's the frothy scum from a sewage tratment plant, times 1,000,000.
8 posted on 07/05/2003 11:55:37 AM PDT by Puddleglum
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To: a_Turk
Should we assume the greenies, the enviros, the Sierra Club, and ecotopes will be congregating in Sao Paolo to assist with the cleanup instead of parading in protest of mystical problems in some Euro or US city this weekend?
9 posted on 07/05/2003 11:56:17 AM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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To: a_Turk
"...with a thick layer of snow-like foam that emits harmful acidic gas on Friday. "

And what does it emit on Saturday through Thursday?

10 posted on 07/05/2003 12:00:03 PM PDT by lawdude (KAKKATE KOI!)
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To: LasVegasMac
That was the Cuyahoga (crooked) river in Cleveland ca. 1968..
11 posted on 07/05/2003 12:00:45 PM PDT by a_Turk (Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
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To: RightWhale
>> Should we assume the greenies, the enviros, the Sierra Club, and ecotopes will be congregating in Sao Paolo to assist with the cleanup

Doubt it.. They may be crazy, but they ain't stupid :))
12 posted on 07/05/2003 12:01:57 PM PDT by a_Turk (Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
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...harmful acidic gas

BFD. Nature does the same thing. When the Blues (Bluefish) are running, they chase Poagies (aka Menhaden) in to coves,
where they suck up all the 02 in the water and die.

The fumes from resulting decomposition peel the paint off of neighboring structures.

13 posted on 07/05/2003 12:05:45 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: a_Turk
Holy surfactants, Batman!
14 posted on 07/05/2003 12:12:19 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: a_Turk
QUICK!!! CALL WOODY HARLESON!

What was that news thing about 4th of July BBQs destroying the planet?
16 posted on 07/05/2003 12:54:26 PM PDT by Rate_Determining_Step (US Military - Draining the Swamp of Terrorism since 2001!)
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Blehhh...
17 posted on 07/05/2003 1:52:37 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely (Is anyone else tired of reading these tag lines?)
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To: a_Turk
Never seen that before!
18 posted on 07/05/2003 3:06:51 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Iran Mullahs will feel the heat from our Iraq victory!)
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To: a_Turk
Yikes!
19 posted on 07/05/2003 7:58:26 PM PDT by oldvike
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To: a_Turk
And you thought that the sea of marmara was polluted :-)
20 posted on 07/06/2003 10:31:51 AM PDT by aristotleman
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