Why can't they build some sort of a treatment plant right on the lake to

xultar

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Fri Sep-09-05 12:41 PM
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Why can't they build some sort of a treatment plant right on the lake to

treat that water as it is being pumped back in. Can't they put a treatment system on a barge and float it in to the lake and treat the water?

I don't get why they would let the lake die. Seems to me that the odor would be profound enough that they would have to do something about the water. They should be planning it now.

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Lindacooks

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Fri Sep-09-05 12:43 PM
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1. That's a good idea. However, chimp has destroyed the

infrastructure of this country along with looting the Treasury, and I'm sure that would fall under 'we can't afford it' as Halliburton gets obscenely rich.

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politicat

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Fri Sep-09-05 12:49 PM
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2. treatment plants require power, and we don't have it.

There's not a generating station that can handle it without putting more toxins into the air and water (save for pebble bed reactors, but most people don't understand pebble bed reactors, and would be thinking 60s style Chernobyl.)

The same reason we don't have desalination plants in California. Nothin's free in chemical reactions. Basic laws of physics are you can't win, you can't break even and you can't get out of the game. We don't have the power.

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KharmaTrain

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Fri Sep-09-05 12:52 PM
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3. Time, Money, Reality

The prime focus is to drain the water from the city. Fortunately, if you want a slimmer of a silver lining, it's being dumped in the Lake that outflows to the Gulf differently than if they had burst the levees and sent the water into the Mississippi which would have really created an ecological mess.

Truth is we have no idea of what toxic disaster this is, so how do you treat it? You hope the heavy chemicals are pumped out of the city...which are creating an immediate health emergency and that they settle at the bottom of the Lake and can be dredged and cleaned later.

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Cleita

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Fri Sep-09-05 12:53 PM
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4. That would make too much sense.

It seems they could generate electricity somehow with the flow of water and solar power, IMHO, but I'm not an elecrician or scientist so I could be wrong.

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Bernardo de La Paz

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Fri Sep-09-05 12:55 PM
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5. Treatment takes a long time, let alone building a plant. Dumb idea, sorry.

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xultar

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Fri Sep-09-05 01:06 PM
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6. They brought in water treatment systems to new orleans. Not a dumb idea

sorry.

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redtapeblues

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Fri Sep-09-05 01:19 PM
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7. I don't mean to be rude, but...

there is no way to treat that amount of water without constructing a major treatment plant. That would require concrete, steel, etc.

Sorry.

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