In conjunction with additional research into the demands by our local
environmentalists that storm water runoff from our boatyards contain no
more than 3-4 parts per billion copper, I reached the following
conclusion:

If salmon are going to killed by concentrations of copper that exceed
3-4 parts per billion, they don't stand a chance in hell out in the
open ocean.

According to this scientific study:

http://sabella.mba.ac.uk/764/01/The_..._sea-water.pdf

sea water contains about 0.2 parts per *million* (not billion) copper.

Unless my math skills fail me, it looks like pure sea water contains
about 200 parts per billion copper, or about 50 times the concentration
of copper that envrionmentalists think should be allowed to flow out of
the drainpipe from a boat yard.

Those poor, hapless salmon. After clearing the 3-4 ppb allowable copper
content in a boatyard's storn water runoff, they get out to sea and are
immediately forced to deal with 50 times that amount as a naturally
occuring element.

"Keith" wrote in message
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Send your environmentalists to take a sample of any roadway. With the
spilled oil, antifreeze, etc. I can guarantee that under their
regulations, every roadway in the US should be disposed of as well, of
course under proper EPA disposal methods.


I always thought it was strange that nobody complains about the millions of
miles of petroleum based asphalt roads paved all over the country, leaching
into the groundwater, let alone the runoff of engine oils, gasoline, etc.

Eisboch

www.eisboch.com

"Eisboch" wrote in message
...

"Keith" wrote in message
oups.com...

Send your environmentalists to take a sample of any roadway. With the
spilled oil, antifreeze, etc. I can guarantee that under their
regulations, every roadway in the US should be disposed of as well, of
course under proper EPA disposal methods.


I always thought it was strange that nobody complains about the millions
of miles of petroleum based asphalt roads paved all over the country,
leaching into the groundwater, let alone the runoff of engine oils,
gasoline, etc.

Eisboch

www.eisboch.com


I complained about it a few times in this newsgroup. Oil mess is often
preventable simply by switching to a mechanic who's not an idiot. A few
knuckleheads told me that the oil glop I see in parking lots is just a
hallucination, so I dropped the subject.

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:48:27 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

I always thought it was strange that nobody complains about the millions of
miles of petroleum based asphalt roads paved all over the country, leaching
into the groundwater, let alone the runoff of engine oils, gasoline, etc.

Environmentalists like their cars. What they don't like are other
people's boats. That, and the fact that every once in awhile they
get contributions from land developers or someone else who doesn't
particularly like boats. The "Save The Manatee" group in Florida got
quite a bit of special interest funding from people whose only real
objective was in having a speed zone in front of their property. It's
still going on.

Chuck,
Enviromental groups have long since passed into the same category as
politicians, beauracrats, lawyers, etc.. They are now 90% about
justifying their existence and 10% (I'm being generous) about doing
their job.





" wrote in
ups.com:

In conjunction with additional research into the demands by our local
environmentalists that storm water runoff from our boatyards contain
no more than 3-4 parts per billion copper, I reached the following
conclusion:

If salmon are going to killed by concentrations of copper that exceed
3-4 parts per billion, they don't stand a chance in hell out in the
open ocean.

According to this scientific study:

http://sabella.mba.ac.uk/764/01/The_..._sea-water.pdf

sea water contains about 0.2 parts per *million* (not billion) copper.

Unless my math skills fail me, it looks like pure sea water contains
about 200 parts per billion copper, or about 50 times the
concentration of copper that envrionmentalists think should be allowed
to flow out of the drainpipe from a boat yard.

Those poor, hapless salmon. After clearing the 3-4 ppb allowable
copper content in a boatyard's storn water runoff, they get out to sea
and are immediately forced to deal with 50 times that amount as a
naturally occuring element.

Some are still good to have around. Nature Conservancy is my favorite.
Rather than waste time trying to fight developers in court (usually a losing
battle), they go out & buy land out from under them. In a few instances,
they've even set up dummy corporations, posing as developers so they're
allowed into the bidding process for tracts of land. I love it.

"otnmbrd" wrote in message
25.201...
Chuck,
Enviromental groups have long since passed into the same category as
politicians, beauracrats, lawyers, etc.. They are now 90% about
justifying their existence and 10% (I'm being generous) about doing
their job.





" wrote in
ups.com:

In conjunction with additional research into the demands by our local
environmentalists that storm water runoff from our boatyards contain
no more than 3-4 parts per billion copper, I reached the following
conclusion:

If salmon are going to killed by concentrations of copper that exceed
3-4 parts per billion, they don't stand a chance in hell out in the
open ocean.

According to this scientific study:

http://sabella.mba.ac.uk/764/01/The_..._sea-water.pdf

sea water contains about 0.2 parts per *million* (not billion) copper.

Unless my math skills fail me, it looks like pure sea water contains
about 200 parts per billion copper, or about 50 times the
concentration of copper that envrionmentalists think should be allowed
to flow out of the drainpipe from a boat yard.

Those poor, hapless salmon. After clearing the 3-4 ppb allowable
copper content in a boatyard's storn water runoff, they get out to sea
and are immediately forced to deal with 50 times that amount as a
naturally occuring element.

"Alotta Fagina" wrote in message
...
You wrote:

Send your environmentalists to take a sample of any roadway. With the
spilled oil, antifreeze, etc. I can guarantee that under their
regulations, every roadway in the US should be disposed of as well,

Uh, this IS the goal of environmentalists.

That's silly, but not surprising that someone came along and said it.

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
Some are still good to have around. Nature Conservancy is my favorite.
Rather than waste time trying to fight developers in court (usually a losing
battle), they go out & buy land out from under them. In a few instances,
they've even set up dummy corporations, posing as developers so they're
allowed into the bidding process for tracts of land. I love it.


I'm 100% in favor of people being able to let their own property go
"back to nature" if that is their desire. My general philosophy is that
you should be able to do what you want on your own ground- up to the
point where it begins having an unreasonable impact on the neighbors.
For instance, if my windward neighbor wants to burn the old tires off
of his car rather than haul them to the dump (and my yard fills up with
foul smelling smoke as a result) then his activity becomes my business.

As a boater, I try to be a good steward of the environment. I don't
dump trash or untreated sewage into the water, I use a vaccum sander, I
don't have my bottom scrubbed without hauling out, and I take pride in
the fact that (for a boat, at least) my trawler achieves exceptional
fuel economy. I even burn a mix of 20% biodiesel. But darned if some
guy in a kayak is going to tell me I can't operate my boat at all
because it isn't entirely environmentally benign.

It would be better if some of these people would simply be honest and
say, "We'd rather have a waterfront park (or, in some cases, a private
residential development) on the shoreline where the marina and
boatyards are now. We don't want to ever hear an engine of any sort on
the water.We don't want to see a bunch of fiberglass hulls blocking the
view of the open water from the public beach. If you're not young
enough and fit enough or don't have time enough to go everywhere by
kayak you have no business at all on the water."

Like most extremists, the major problem with the noisy wackos is the
damage they do to
the image of the responsible people. In the political field, for
example, you have people like Rush Limbaugh who are cartoon stereotypes
doing a disservice to normal, sincere, and thoughtful conservatives, or
Michael Moore types who make it all too easy for many right wingers to
characterize "all liberals" as unbridled extremists.

I think there are a lot of environmentalists who do good work, and we
do need some restrictions against private interests needlessly
despoiling the public air, water, and landscape. The nature of man is
to alter his enviornment. In my opinion, we should use resources
responsibly, rather than try to live an impossible lifestyle where we
don't use any resources at all.

wrote in message
oups.com...

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
Some are still good to have around. Nature Conservancy is my favorite.
Rather than waste time trying to fight developers in court (usually a
losing
battle), they go out & buy land out from under them. In a few instances,
they've even set up dummy corporations, posing as developers so they're
allowed into the bidding process for tracts of land. I love it.


I'm 100% in favor of people being able to let their own property go
"back to nature" if that is their desire. My general philosophy is that
you should be able to do what you want on your own ground- up to the
point where it begins having an unreasonable impact on the neighbors.
For instance, if my windward neighbor wants to burn the old tires off
of his car rather than haul them to the dump (and my yard fills up with
foul smelling smoke as a result) then his activity becomes my business.

As a boater, I try to be a good steward of the environment. I don't
dump trash or untreated sewage into the water, I use a vaccum sander, I
don't have my bottom scrubbed without hauling out, and I take pride in
the fact that (for a boat, at least) my trawler achieves exceptional
fuel economy. I even burn a mix of 20% biodiesel. But darned if some
guy in a kayak is going to tell me I can't operate my boat at all
because it isn't entirely environmentally benign.

It would be better if some of these people would simply be honest and
say, "We'd rather have a waterfront park (or, in some cases, a private
residential development) on the shoreline where the marina and
boatyards are now. We don't want to ever hear an engine of any sort on
the water.We don't want to see a bunch of fiberglass hulls blocking the
view of the open water from the public beach. If you're not young
enough and fit enough or don't have time enough to go everywhere by
kayak you have no business at all on the water."

Like most extremists, the major problem with the noisy wackos is the
damage they do to
the image of the responsible people. In the political field, for
example, you have people like Rush Limbaugh who are cartoon stereotypes
doing a disservice to normal, sincere, and thoughtful conservatives, or
Michael Moore types who make it all too easy for many right wingers to
characterize "all liberals" as unbridled extremists.

I think there are a lot of environmentalists who do good work, and we
do need some restrictions against private interests needlessly
despoiling the public air, water, and landscape. The nature of man is
to alter his enviornment. In my opinion, we should use resources
responsibly, rather than try to live an impossible lifestyle where we
don't use any resources at all.


I agree with all of this. I'll add one thing, though: In some cases,
environmental groups are up against something insidious, but all too common:
Local officials who are "all for a great project" because they're being paid
to support it. This was debated here for quite some time when the city of
Rochester got itself involved with a fast ferry project that died a grisly
death after just one year of operation. Something went terribly wrong with
the planning & marketing of the thing. Some people say it's because the city
officials who wanted the boat were unbelievably stupid and incompetent.
Others (who I agree with) believe officials were "incentivized" to ignore
all the red flags that any astute business manager would've noticed
immediately. Either way, there's a nice, big ferry literally rotting in
front of a terminal which will also begin rotting soon. The ferry's up for
sale. The terminal may be going to a developer who wants to turn it into
apartments. Doesn't matter what it is - it's ugly as hell. I suspect that
developer will get the building at a fire sale price.

Now, we're facing the same thing in my town, a suburb just northeast of
Rochester. In a bay that's already WAY too crowded with boats, and also has
some gorgeous wetlands which provide terrific fishing & duck hunting, the
town wants to build a 300-slip transient marina to serve "all the boats that
come from Canada and can't find a place to stay". This sounds like the fast
ferry idea, which was supposed to carry "all the Canadians who want to come
here and enjoy everything Rochester has to offer" (which ain't much,
compared to Toronto, as most Canadians have known for years). The question
being asked by environmental groups is "What evidence do we have of all
these boats that need a place to dock?"

I posed the question to the town planner yesterday. He was clueless, except
to say that "studies" were being done by the Army Corps of Engineers. I'm no
expert on the functions of the Corps, but something tells me they do not
handle market research. So, we're getting pie in the sky from the same town
board which thought a big enclosed mall was a great idea. That mall now
stands 90% empty.

So, I'll be meeting with the town supervisor next week. And, I'm already in
touch with Nature Conservancy, who's been watching the situation since the
previous supervisor opened his mouth about the plan. I think it's safe to
say that a significant percentage of voters do not use the bay at all, so
putting the plan on the ballot would be pointless. If the project is to be
reviewed carefully, it'll have to be an outside group that does it.

"Alotta Fagina" wrote in message
...
You wrote:


"Alotta Fagina" wrote in message
...
You wrote:

Send your environmentalists to take a sample of any roadway. With the
spilled oil, antifreeze, etc. I can guarantee that under their
regulations, every roadway in the US should be disposed of as well,

Uh, this IS the goal of environmentalists.

That's silly

As silly as trying to outlaw 5ppb of a "toxin" when the salmon's natural
habitat has 1,000 times that level? Oh, right - that's not silly, it's
sick.

What's silly is that you lump all environmental groups into one comment.
I'll wager that you cannot name 10 such groups and describe the difference
between their goals and approaches.