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In Florida - Don't Go Near the Water
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:37:29 -0400, wrote:
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:26:30 -0400, John H wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:29:18 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:56:02 -0400, X ~ Man wrote: On 8/16/11 4:54 PM, John H wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:34:28 -0400, wrote: On 8/16/2011 2:11 PM, X ~ Man wrote: TITUSVILLLE — Hundreds lined Max Brewer Bridge on Monday evening to drop flower petals in honor of 16-year-old Courtney Nash, who died Saturday from a rare amoebic infection contracted after swimming in the St. Johns River. Schoolmates, friends and entire families stopped to pay tribute to the girl as they crowded on one side of the bridge. Many wore T-shirts in memory of Nash. "R.I.P. CJN," read one. "I love you, Courtney," read another. - - - One wonders if flajim had been swimming in that river earlier... One of the first things you will be told on The Savannah River is to not touch the water. They wear rubber gloves when docking or undocking. You can watch railroad tanker cars being cleaned with steam and the discharge running down the rocks and into the river a little above the island and a short ways to the ocean. The water stinks but there is still fish in it. The Dolphins won't come much beyond the island. I think it is because of the pollution. If they knew what they were in I'm sure they wouldn't come near the river at all. There are many rivers in bad shape. The one I use to fish, just about every evening, most of the mussels died at least one year. You could see what appeared to be marshmallows floating all over the water. It was dead mussels out of their shells. I found one big mussel shell and it was paper thin years ago. The biggest ones now, where there are any are about the size of your thumb. One year when we came back in there was stuff all over the water. It was hell cleaning the boat. It was human feces. they found a lot of syringes and stuff that year. The little nooks and slack areas of the lakes are full of every conceivable piece of plastic, garbage, old tires, tampons, and you name it. Well, I'll have to admit that even with all its problems (including the f**king swans), the Chesapeake isn't quite that bad. Herring lets his grandchildren swim in the Potomac, *downstream* from a major sewage plant. I remember shortly after they did the "Lady Bird" renovations to Blue Plains they had the manager on TV and he scooped up a cup of the effluent water and drank it. They were saying the water below Blue Plains was cleaner than the water up stream. We had a little burst of E-coli coming down the Caloosahatchee last week but it cleared up http://esetappsdoh.doh.state.fl.us/i...spx?county=Lee I do water samples in the Estero River and if people knew the numbers they wouldn't want to touch it in February when the snowbirds are here Blue Plains isn't the big problem, unless it floods, which doesn't happen often. The big problem is the Anacostia. I suppose it depends on which pollutant you are talking about. If you are talking about oil from street runoff and industrial pollution I bet you are right. A lot of those light industrial places in North East probably do discharge into the storm drains. I bet those rich folks on the Potomac side are discharging nutrient rich yard runoff into the storm drains. When we investigated nutrients, yards were the major source, being worse that agriculture and golf courses. That is not going to be true of the chicken farms on the Eastern Shore that discharge tons of nutrients into the bay. Florida is far more proactive about that these days, enforcing NPDES standards on commercial enterprises but residences are immune. Everything you said and 'people pollution' fills the Anacostia. I don't even like taking my boat up there because of the filth in and on the water. |
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In Florida - Don't Go Near the Water
On 8/16/2011 4:54 PM, John H wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:34:28 -0400, wrote: On 8/16/2011 2:11 PM, X ~ Man wrote: TITUSVILLLE — Hundreds lined Max Brewer Bridge on Monday evening to drop flower petals in honor of 16-year-old Courtney Nash, who died Saturday from a rare amoebic infection contracted after swimming in the St. Johns River. Schoolmates, friends and entire families stopped to pay tribute to the girl as they crowded on one side of the bridge. Many wore T-shirts in memory of Nash. "R.I.P. CJN," read one. "I love you, Courtney," read another. - - - One wonders if flajim had been swimming in that river earlier... One of the first things you will be told on The Savannah River is to not touch the water. They wear rubber gloves when docking or undocking. You can watch railroad tanker cars being cleaned with steam and the discharge running down the rocks and into the river a little above the island and a short ways to the ocean. The water stinks but there is still fish in it. The Dolphins won't come much beyond the island. I think it is because of the pollution. If they knew what they were in I'm sure they wouldn't come near the river at all. There are many rivers in bad shape. The one I use to fish, just about every evening, most of the mussels died at least one year. You could see what appeared to be marshmallows floating all over the water. It was dead mussels out of their shells. I found one big mussel shell and it was paper thin years ago. The biggest ones now, where there are any are about the size of your thumb. One year when we came back in there was stuff all over the water. It was hell cleaning the boat. It was human feces. they found a lot of syringes and stuff that year. The little nooks and slack areas of the lakes are full of every conceivable piece of plastic, garbage, old tires, tampons, and you name it. Well, I'll have to admit that even with all its problems (including the f**king swans), the Chesapeake isn't quite that bad. If I were you, I'd take some pictures, post them, and let all of us send them to Bobo. The sighting of the RxR tanker cars was two years ago. Anyone taking the cruise in Savannah can see it. The other stuff ain't the half of it. When it rains too much upstream they discharge sewage along with the runoff untreated. Sometimes they do it anyway. thirty years ago the State was going to make that city clean up it's act supposedly until the city said they couldn't afford it. They still expanded the city limits and the sewer system even though the plant couldn't handle it. Signs were made up to be posted to not eat the fish and not to swim in the river but the city howled and others that it would kill tourism. The few signs that went up came down. One year I had to as well as many others clean sewage from our boat hulls. They found syringes and hospital waste down river where we launched about 20 miles. This kind of stuff goes on all over the Country. latest howl about EPA going too far has some foundation but now you can do anything there are not enough State pollution staff, so to speak, to even answer the phone. |
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In Florida - Don't Go Near the Water
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:52:34 -0400, LilAbner wrote:
On 8/16/2011 4:54 PM, John H wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:34:28 -0400, wrote: On 8/16/2011 2:11 PM, X ~ Man wrote: TITUSVILLLE — Hundreds lined Max Brewer Bridge on Monday evening to drop flower petals in honor of 16-year-old Courtney Nash, who died Saturday from a rare amoebic infection contracted after swimming in the St. Johns River. Schoolmates, friends and entire families stopped to pay tribute to the girl as they crowded on one side of the bridge. Many wore T-shirts in memory of Nash. "R.I.P. CJN," read one. "I love you, Courtney," read another. - - - One wonders if flajim had been swimming in that river earlier... One of the first things you will be told on The Savannah River is to not touch the water. They wear rubber gloves when docking or undocking. You can watch railroad tanker cars being cleaned with steam and the discharge running down the rocks and into the river a little above the island and a short ways to the ocean. The water stinks but there is still fish in it. The Dolphins won't come much beyond the island. I think it is because of the pollution. If they knew what they were in I'm sure they wouldn't come near the river at all. There are many rivers in bad shape. The one I use to fish, just about every evening, most of the mussels died at least one year. You could see what appeared to be marshmallows floating all over the water. It was dead mussels out of their shells. I found one big mussel shell and it was paper thin years ago. The biggest ones now, where there are any are about the size of your thumb. One year when we came back in there was stuff all over the water. It was hell cleaning the boat. It was human feces. they found a lot of syringes and stuff that year. The little nooks and slack areas of the lakes are full of every conceivable piece of plastic, garbage, old tires, tampons, and you name it. Well, I'll have to admit that even with all its problems (including the f**king swans), the Chesapeake isn't quite that bad. If I were you, I'd take some pictures, post them, and let all of us send them to Bobo. The sighting of the RxR tanker cars was two years ago. Anyone taking the cruise in Savannah can see it. The other stuff ain't the half of it. When it rains too much upstream they discharge sewage along with the runoff untreated. Sometimes they do it anyway. thirty years ago the State was going to make that city clean up it's act supposedly until the city said they couldn't afford it. They still expanded the city limits and the sewer system even though the plant couldn't handle it. Signs were made up to be posted to not eat the fish and not to swim in the river but the city howled and others that it would kill tourism. The few signs that went up came down. One year I had to as well as many others clean sewage from our boat hulls. They found syringes and hospital waste down river where we launched about 20 miles. This kind of stuff goes on all over the Country. latest howl about EPA going too far has some foundation but now you can do anything there are not enough State pollution staff, so to speak, to even answer the phone. Now it's starting to sound like our Anacostia River, which flows through some not too careful sections of DC. What a mess, and probably the source of about 90% of the Potomac's pollution. Of course, I'll be called a racist for whining about it. But, what the hell. |
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In Florida - Don't Go Near the Water
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:34:28 -0400, LilAbner wrote:
On 8/16/2011 2:11 PM, X ~ Man wrote: TITUSVILLLE — Hundreds lined Max Brewer Bridge on Monday evening to drop flower petals in honor of 16-year-old Courtney Nash, who died Saturday from a rare amoebic infection contracted after swimming in the St. Johns River. Schoolmates, friends and entire families stopped to pay tribute to the girl as they crowded on one side of the bridge. Many wore T-shirts in memory of Nash. "R.I.P. CJN," read one. "I love you, Courtney," read another. - - - One wonders if flajim had been swimming in that river earlier... One of the first things you will be told on The Savannah River is to not touch the water. They wear rubber gloves when docking or undocking. You can watch railroad tanker cars being cleaned with steam and the discharge running down the rocks and into the river a little above the island and a short ways to the ocean. The water stinks but there is still fish in it. The Dolphins won't come much beyond the island. I think it is because of the pollution. If they knew what they were in I'm sure they wouldn't come near the river at all. There are many rivers in bad shape. The one I use to fish, just about every evening, most of the mussels died at least one year. You could see what appeared to be marshmallows floating all over the water. It was dead mussels out of their shells. I found one big mussel shell and it was paper thin years ago. The biggest ones now, where there are any are about the size of your thumb. One year when we came back in there was stuff all over the water. It was hell cleaning the boat. It was human feces. they found a lot of syringes and stuff that year. The little nooks and slack areas of the lakes are full of every conceivable piece of plastic, garbage, old tires, tampons, and you name it. Republican water heaven. **** all those liberals and their clean air and water. |
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