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m... On 7/28/10 11:12 AM, wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:41:15 -0400, Harry wrote: On 7/27/10 10:03 PM, bpuharic wrote: i used to. never went swimming there....used to be at the 'chesapeake yachting center' on frog mortar creek, and locust point marina on elk river.... washington post has an interesting article on sewage in chesapeake http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...=news-col-blog makes me glad i now boat in new jersey (YES that's supposed to be ironic! Sad, but the Bay isn't alone in this. If you google "beach pollution" and variants, you'll find a seemingly endless list of reports about polluted waters, beaches, rivers, lakes, et cetera, in the United States. Some of the beaches on the Gulf Coast of Florida have pollution at toxic levels. The St. Johns River in Jacksonville has enormous algae blooms, large fish kills, and acres of foam. That's the same river the Navy polluted with PCBs. Yesterday, there was an oil spill of a million gallons in Michigan and that oil is headed to the Great Lakes. We Americans are not very good shepherds of our natural resources. The Florida Department of Health tests beaches once a week. If you are curious you can see how your beach is doing take a look. This is Lee County but you can change the last part of this URL to any county. http://esetappsdoh.doh.state.fl.us/i...spx?county=Lee I also do a sample once a month in the Estero River. The trend is, high numbers in the winter, low numbers in the summer. I blame it on bad sewer plants in a couple trailer parks that have a significant snow bird population. We busted one of them several years ago triggered by my sample. A good part of the problem around he agricultural run-off, decimation of stands of forest, and storm sewer overflow. Do you poop in the storm drain too? How gross. -- Me |
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says... "Harry ?" wrote in message m... On 7/28/10 11:12 AM, wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:41:15 -0400, Harry wrote: On 7/27/10 10:03 PM, bpuharic wrote: i used to. never went swimming there....used to be at the 'chesapeake yachting center' on frog mortar creek, and locust point marina on elk river.... washington post has an interesting article on sewage in chesapeake http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...=news-col-blog makes me glad i now boat in new jersey (YES that's supposed to be ironic! Sad, but the Bay isn't alone in this. If you google "beach pollution" and variants, you'll find a seemingly endless list of reports about polluted waters, beaches, rivers, lakes, et cetera, in the United States. Some of the beaches on the Gulf Coast of Florida have pollution at toxic levels. The St. Johns River in Jacksonville has enormous algae blooms, large fish kills, and acres of foam. That's the same river the Navy polluted with PCBs. Yesterday, there was an oil spill of a million gallons in Michigan and that oil is headed to the Great Lakes. We Americans are not very good shepherds of our natural resources. The Florida Department of Health tests beaches once a week. If you are curious you can see how your beach is doing take a look. This is Lee County but you can change the last part of this URL to any county. http://esetappsdoh.doh.state.fl.us/i...spx?county=Lee I also do a sample once a month in the Estero River. The trend is, high numbers in the winter, low numbers in the summer. I blame it on bad sewer plants in a couple trailer parks that have a significant snow bird population. We busted one of them several years ago triggered by my sample. A good part of the problem around he agricultural run-off, decimation of stands of forest, and storm sewer overflow. Do you poop in the storm drain too? How gross. Yes, it's the only thing large enough to hold my fat ass. |
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says... On 7/28/10 11:12 AM, wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:41:15 -0400, Harry wrote: On 7/27/10 10:03 PM, bpuharic wrote: i used to. never went swimming there....used to be at the 'chesapeake yachting center' on frog mortar creek, and locust point marina on elk river.... washington post has an interesting article on sewage in chesapeake http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...=news-col-blog makes me glad i now boat in new jersey (YES that's supposed to be ironic! Sad, but the Bay isn't alone in this. If you google "beach pollution" and variants, you'll find a seemingly endless list of reports about polluted waters, beaches, rivers, lakes, et cetera, in the United States. Some of the beaches on the Gulf Coast of Florida have pollution at toxic levels. The St. Johns River in Jacksonville has enormous algae blooms, large fish kills, and acres of foam. That's the same river the Navy polluted with PCBs. Yesterday, there was an oil spill of a million gallons in Michigan and that oil is headed to the Great Lakes. We Americans are not very good shepherds of our natural resources. The Florida Department of Health tests beaches once a week. If you are curious you can see how your beach is doing take a look. This is Lee County but you can change the last part of this URL to any county. http://esetappsdoh.doh.state.fl.us/i...spx?county=Lee I also do a sample once a month in the Estero River. The trend is, high numbers in the winter, low numbers in the summer. I blame it on bad sewer plants in a couple trailer parks that have a significant snow bird population. We busted one of them several years ago triggered by my sample. A good part of the problem around he agricultural run-off, decimation of stands of forest, and storm sewer overflow. Yet you populate the area and make it worse, spoofer? |
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