"The nearby Canadian city of Victoria disposes its untreated wastewater by pumping it directly into the Strait of Juan de Fuca."
What the hell?? How can a modern city in a first-world nation do that in 2017?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/human-diseases-pacific-orcas-killer-whales-salmonella/
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
With what Donny Jingles is getting ready to do today you may not need to go international to be outraged. #Flint
ReplyDelete"We couldn't show that the bacteria coming out of the blowhole was from the nearby water," says Schroeder. "We can't say exactly where it came from."
ReplyDeleteFor the TL;DR crowd, there was no association found between the bacteria from the wastewater and the bacteria in the Orca blowholes.
Victoria has been struggling ineffectually with this for many decades. The latest efforts have involved putting a sewage treatment plant in the middle of a residential neighborhood, or at the mouth of the harbor (won't that be a boon for tourism, the city's largest industry?). They can't get their shit together. Literally. This is a city that decided to replace a bridge between municipalities, in the heart of downtown, and the project is taking years. The span is something I could easily throw a rock across. Rerouting and treating the septic output of the entire city is a massive and vastly more complex project. It's hard to imagine how they'll ever get this done.
ReplyDeleteTheir current deadline is 2020; not sure if that's achievable.
ReplyDeletecbc.ca - Capital Regional District approves Victoria-area sewage treatment plant
Boston, Massachusetts has a similar problems. During storm events their 19th-century combined sewage/storm water system carries too high a volume for the wastewater treatment plant to handle, so they dump it in the harbor: mwra.state.ma.us - MWRA - Combined Sewer Overflow Control Program
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle lol, it's time to lighten up a little bit
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