dead zone in the gulf

Sk8r · 07/18/2007, 09:05 PM

...proving we tank-bound folk are not the only ones with this problem. It occurs in semi-nature.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science....ap/index.html

drummereef · 07/18/2007, 09:10 PM

8,543 square miles. Interesting article but quite disturbing none the less.

techreef · 07/19/2007, 07:20 AM

hmm, maybe there is something to that whole "clean water" environmental stuff...

We have a not-so-similar problem over here on the Hudson River. The amount of contaminants and chemicals dumped into the river by manufacturing and shipping over the past 200 years is off the charts. The good news is that much of it is now buried in the river bed, but to remove it would stir up the bed and release large amounts of the gunk back into the river. This country had fabulous booms w/ the Industrial Revolution, but man are we finding out the price we have to pay nowadays.

07/18/2007, 09:05 PM	#1
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07/18/2007, 09:10 PM	#2
drummereef Team RC Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: STL Posts: 14,754	8,543 square miles. Interesting article but quite disturbing none the less. __________________ -Brett 180g Marineland Starfire In-Wall 278 gallon system

07/19/2007, 07:20 AM	#3
techreef Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Montclair, NJ Posts: 1,046	hmm, maybe there is something to that whole "clean water" environmental stuff... We have a not-so-similar problem over here on the Hudson River. The amount of contaminants and chemicals dumped into the river by manufacturing and shipping over the past 200 years is off the charts. The good news is that much of it is now buried in the river bed, but to remove it would stir up the bed and release large amounts of the gunk back into the river. This country had fabulous booms w/ the Industrial Revolution, but man are we finding out the price we have to pay nowadays.