I watched as I saw the water being pumped from New Orleans and I wondered where are they pumping that water? Are they treating it first? Making at least some minor attempt at filtering it? I then found out from not only the media but a friend who was there and saw the horrors of New Orleans first hand that the water is just being pumped directly into Lake Pontchartrain.
I realize options are limited and that the goal is to remove the water as quickly as possible but at what cost?
The above linked article to the New York Times begins to address that. However, I take major issue with one statment:
Whether or not the accelerating pumping of this brew from city streets into coastal waters poses a threat to the ecosystems and fisheries in the brackish bay remains to be seen, the officials said.
That's complete bullshit. Anyone who does not realize that it will create a huge environmental disaster that will continue to hurt the whole ecosystem of New Orleans is kidding themselves. At best there will be huge areas of deadzones in the Lake where nothing can live because oxygyen will be at zero.
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7 comments:
This is, as you point out Lisa, a disaster seemingly beyond our ability to comprehend, let alone solve.
The long-term ramifications of Hurricane Katrina are just now beginning to be put forward.
I think that Lake Ponchartrain will likely go through a period of severe environmental damage. I hope that it can recover, and that authorities are considering ways to combat the pollution they are pumping into a fragile ecosystem.
And what of the city? Should planners attempt to rebuild it like it was, or should a smarter design be commissioned that incorporates massive levee breaks as a "normal" event for which controls are in place?
I shudder to think what New Orleans would look like if terrorists used the levees as targets with a full city. My fear is that newer, higher levees will be erected that will be inviting targets for sociopaths with a terror agenda.
Good point mike, how they rebuild is going to be a huge issue. Can you actually build to prevent a category five and will the federal government come up with the money for that to be possible is a huge question.
Should they is another. Should they rebuild the city at a higher level so it is not below sea level? There are going to be alot of questions and this is going to take years before it is completed.
I admit I was happy to find out several of my favorite places in the French Quarter survived. However it appears not much else did make it.
If I could have a magic wish it would be for them to find a way to not create the same system of dikes and damage to the wetlands that made parts of the city at more risk. However, I also realize that probably won't happen.
Nature has a way of mitigating man's messes over time.
I have faith that she will again with this manly mess.
Leave it to the ladies to clean up after the men...
As usual.
;-)
Thankfully nature can get over some disasters, hopefully this one will not be more than can be handled.
After talking to you about it Bob it made me even more concerned. Then the article came out which really irritated me because they know how toxic that water is.
Toxic, mostly because it is concentrated.
Diluting it will help with most of this, yet you have to wonder about the trace pollutants.
Each year, in this country especially, more babies are born with birth defects. And, you can't blame it all on our casual use of recreational drugs.
One has to wonder about all of those trace pollutants in our creek and river bottoms though...
bob,
I was referring to the bacterial problem as being controlled by dilution.
The man-made way to deal with the petrochemicals is, of course, to use the booms.
That being said/clarified, Nature, in her own time and in her own way would eventually deal with the Oil; it's the "in her own time" part that man can't seem to deal with...
And, FWIW, it seems that the terms EPA and God are mutually exclusive (at least in the EPA's own little world).
Shalom,
-HT
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