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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (249962)9/6/2005 6:48:03 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1574524
 
"Don't they normally pump out the water into some kind of flowing water, such as Mississippi river, rather than to a stationary water?"

I don't know anything about their procedures. I suspect they will pump it where ever they can. Unless the city is laced with pipes, they will have to pump some into the lake, parts of the city are a lot closer to the lake than the river.

Dilution is often not all that much of a help. There is a lot of clays in suspension by the time the Mississippi reaches New Orleans. Those clay particles strongly adsorb organic chemicals on their surface, which is why they are used in chemical cleanups. So between that and the amount of water that filter feeders pump, means that they get exposed.

How bad it will be, we can't guess. There very well may not be any impact, we just don't know. And again, we have few choices.

But we should be concerned and keep an eye on it.
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