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Thu Sep 08 2005 02:05 PM
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'Disinfecting' the water in New Orleans
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Would dumping 100,000 gallons of Chlorine (bleach) into the water have any beneficial effect?
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Clark
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(Meteorologist)
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Thu Sep 08 2005 11:34 PM
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Re: 'Disinfecting' the water in New Orleans
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Probably not. It'd be like drinking pool water; you'd kill the bacteria, but you wouldn't really be able to safely drink it. You can't dump it across the city to try to clean the city because of the impacts it'd have on the environment after it ran off, was pumped into the lake, or something similar.
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marine4003
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(Registered User)
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Fri Sep 09 2005 10:28 AM
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Re: 'Disinfecting' the water in New Orleans
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My old business partner now has a company that makes water puriafication systems,BIG ones,we were discussing just that, why didnt FEMA have some sort of H2O cleaning prior to dumping 2billion gallons of pollution into lake Ponch.and by doing so ,what long term ramafacations will it have? according to him, the reports of " a toxic soup" are pushing it, yea its bad, but the good news is New Orleans didnt have any heavy industry downtown, so the pollution is mostly biological,ie: human waste-decomp-and yea , oil & gas ,dumping bleach is not an option and will make the impact worse, the eco-system can handle bio waste as it will be broken down ,oil products will have a bad effect but not of disaster preportions,as 2 billion gallons only represents 2% of Lake Ponch's total , As for pollution my concern is what thay intent to do with 90,000 sq miles worth of debris? all the buildings and houses that sat in water have to be demolished,there is no way to save them,in my opinion the city ,needs to be built up . so why not take the debris and add more fill on top,and if the planners are going to rebuild New Orleans do it on top of the old....literally..Just my 2 cents worth
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gvl, fl
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Fri Sep 09 2005 08:06 PM
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Re: 'Disinfecting' the water in New Orleans
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I think the Chlorine evaporates eventually. For instance, if you want to use tap water for Venus Flytraps, you put it in a bucket and let it sit for a day or two, until the chlorine evaporates. It wouldn't have to be swimming pool strength/concentration, necessarily. Just enough to kill a lot of the nasty stuff in there now. Even 1 or 2 drops per gallon would probably do something. I'm not thinking that people could drink it easily so much as that it wouldn't be deadly toxic.
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