WilliamPitt
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:22 PM
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The water is being pumped out of the city now |
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Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 12:26 PM by WilliamPitt
...back into the ocean.
Petrochemicals, sewage, dead bodies, general filth, and now e. coli confirmed in the water.
Human disaster. Economic disaster. Now, environmental disaster.
On edit: The water must be removed, of course. But its condition adds to the scope of this thing.
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:23 PM
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1. What else can we do, though? |
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Ain't got no choice to create an environmental disaster if we want the city back.
I can only imagine the dead zone this will create.
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:24 PM
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4. Send it to the WH? n/t |
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:36 PM
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17. Too bad we can BEAM it there, a la the Scotty and the tribbles. n/t |
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:24 PM
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That's the point. We have to do this.
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:24 PM
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2. There's not much choice though. |
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:24 PM
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3. How would you suggest we treat it? |
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:25 PM
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7. The water has to be removed, of course |
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But its condition adds to the scope of this thing.
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:25 PM
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6. Every bit of this had been predicted by FEMA in the past... |
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as a worst case scenario...#2 in the list of the potenitally most dangerous U.S. disasters.
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:25 PM
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8. How sad. And preventable. |
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:26 PM
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9. Last I saw they were pumping it back into the lake |
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:26 PM
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10. This was happening yesterday |
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The Army Corps of Engineers guy was asked about the water. He referred everyone ot the EPA. He wouldn't elaborate but kept repeating the EPA, the EPA.
Remember, EPA standards were relaxed almost before aid was being sent to the area. I'm so glad priorities are in order for this gang. :eyes:
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:28 PM
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11. Pumped into where....Lake Ponchartrain and then from there to flow |
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...out into the Gulf of Mexico to kill that body of water and affect millions of people along the entire crescent coast both eastward and westward. Total lack of science and understanding by the Bush Administration.
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:38 PM
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19. It's not a lack of science. There's no way to treat this much material. |
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:38 PM
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20. That's what I am thinking |
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depending on the currents, it can also come to Texas....
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:28 PM
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12. I wasgoing to start a thread on this, but didn' t know which forum |
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to post it in: How do they go about cleaning up the contaminated water?
I'd eat fish out of the Potomac before I eat any from the Gulf/Ponchartrain :scared:
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:28 PM
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13. I'll never eat seafood again. I promise. |
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:31 PM
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14. This is what happens when humans fuck with nature too much... |
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and elected officials choose to ignore warnings. You've got oil refineries and chemical plants all over the area, while at the same time destroying the wetlands in the Mississippi delta region that would normally act as a buffer to hurricanes. Add to that gross indiference to funding the saftey of the region to help protect against the very disaster predicted by FEMA years ago.
Enter Katrina...
Voila, worst case senario comes true.
This is terrible...
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:31 PM
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15. Expert on DemocracyNow friday said there's not enough money... |
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in the GNP of the U.S. to treat the water. All the more reason that the FEMA interference with efforts to repair the breach last Tuesday needs to be thoroughly examined.
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:37 PM
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18. Repairing a levee while water is flowing in = impossible. |
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Quickly flowing water just bulldozes anything you put in front of it.
Levee can be fixed now because water has equalized.
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:35 PM
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that it was being pumped back into lake Pontchartrain which would mean of course it would go back into the ocean...but then there are two contaminated bodies of h2o. The whole thing makes me sick.
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Tue Sep-06-05 12:41 PM
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21. Remember when Saddam poured all the oil into the arabian sea? |
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It will be interesting to look at how that area recovered, in order to see what might work here to repair the damage to the Gulf. In the meantime I think I'll cut back on eating the fish I catch and forget about the scallops.
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