Posted on 03/27/2017 4:17:38 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Millions of gallons of raw sewage and untreated runoff have poured into the United States' second-largest estuary since a massive sewage treatment plant experienced equipment failures that forced it to stop fully treating Seattle's waste.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Now it’s Pewie Sound.
Name it after Obama, the crap was ever flowing...
No apprause???
The Geoducks will be especially tasty this spring
with a hint of an earthy after taste.
30 Million gallons dumped ... almost as bad as Milwaukee. It takes 7 years for the current volume of water in Puget Sound to flush out to the Pacific.
Puget Sound used to have fairly clear water until the building boom of the 1970s when occupation began to exceed carrying capacity. After that the treated water dumped particulate matter (sort of like very very tiny gooy pieces of wet toilet paper) into the Sound forcing the surface swimming fish like herring and salmon to dive beneath the mess which formed up in the water columns. By diving deeper, the fish fed less and steadily grew smaller and weaker.
The people who called attention to this environmental problem created by environmentalists were hounded and scorned: commercial salmon fishermen ...
Shellfish ban in the sound from Tacoma up to Everett.
https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/eh/maps/biotoxin/biotoxin.html
Break out the dawn dishwater detergent... there’s wildlife to save...
The upgrading of municipal water treatment plants should become a major part in the infrastructure program.
It will cause some huge toxic algae bloom in Puget Sound and the libs will turn right around and blame it on Glowbull Warming.
It’s the idiot lib city and state workers again cutting corners and not doing repairs so that the moola can be used to pad their pensions just like they do in Oregon.
These people are worthless workers who would be fired in the private sector.
“treating Seattle’s waste”
I never read the story, so I’m just assuming it’s about treating lefties in a mental ward.
What do the mayor of Seattle and Puget Sound have in common? They are both full of sh!t.
Earth Day 2014: Seattle, Green City of the Future
Imagine a city that is carbon neutral, has zero emissions, uses sustainable energy sources and builds a comprehensive public transportation. This is the “city of the future,” according to the Earth Day Network’s Green Cities Campaign – and a future not too far away, especially here in Seattle.
http://www.jolkona.org/seattle-green-city/
Seattle may be green but Puget Sound is brown.
We like visiting Seattle but the multiple green Suburu wagons with the Kerry stickers are something to see...
Seattle, my home town, is filled with idiots.
LOL
I believe I will imagine my own movie about Seattle and call it
Revenge of the Killer Whales!
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