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Great day on the Potomac

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On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 13:31:30 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
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On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 10:48:44 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

I suppose in your mind polluting our waterways is okay?

It seems to be when it is the DC government doing it.

I was amazed that 50 years after the feds decided to clean up the
river that it is still so bad. I really believed they were making
measurable progress but from what I am reading, sadly, that is not
true.

What went wrong?

The DC government still has not fixed a 19th century sewer system.
When it rains the storm drains that share pipe with the sewers
overload the system and they dump raw effluent from 53 different
spillways directly into the Potomac or it's tributaries.
That is what WSSC admits to in the link John posted.
Then you have the nutrient load from the Blue Plains plant when things
are working perfectly.

They have banned summer fertilizer sales here for a nutrient problem
that pales by comparison

I suppose you could just say it is a city problem and any time you put
that many toilets in that small an area you overload nature's
mechanism for dealing with it.

It would be interesting to see the NPDES permits for other big cities
to see how they are doing.,

All of that takes MAJOR money, and the right wing doesn't want the
government to spend.

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