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To: PAR35
Those are good ideas. However, I remember a few years ago, Boston got hammered (I'm not think the blizzard if '78, this was just 5-10 years ago) and they had nowhere to put the snow. So, they started dumping it into Boston Harbor.

The EPA put a stop to that.

It's pollution if it's been on the ground in the city. You cannot dump such hazardous waste in the ocean.

93 posted on 01/25/2015 2:33:47 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Malort, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Boston dumped it in the harbor in 2011.


98 posted on 01/25/2015 2:37:41 PM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The middle of Manhattan where Fifth and Sixth Avenue run north and south is about forty feet higher in elevation than the east or west side highways. So, to some extent once it starts to melt the water runs downhill towards the Hudson river eventually. They have open lots where they do end up dumping much of the snow. However, they have to load it in dump trucks and haul it away.

My coworker Tom will be pumped. He sells rock salt by the truckload. His main supplier is American Rock Salt just south of Rochester, NY. He sold ten trucks of salt on Friday. I bet the phone will be ringing off the hook tomorrow and Tuesday.


114 posted on 01/25/2015 2:51:31 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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