Am I missing something here.....

[Green Mountain Dem]

Why on earth are they pumping all that waste water... UNTREATED... back into the Lake??? Seems like robbing Peter to pay Paul mentality, this can't be good !!

[Avalux]

1. It'll kill all the fish, probably.

A really bad idea, but what choice is there? I don't know.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Where else do you suggest they put it?

n/t

[Green Mountain Dem]

7. In the Lake,,BUT..

TREAT it first!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Like they have time for that?

There is no way to treat that much water in any reasonable amount of time.

[Green Mountain Dem]

13. OH I get it now....

Save the city ...kill the Lake...so the Lake will come back and kill the City again! It's a typical Bush proposal...Perpetual Death!! Not unlike we have been seeing in other Bush adventures!

[orpupilofnature57]

11. Exactly, it's about priorities, don't get me wrong I'm a R.F.K. jr Fan

all the way, fuck Shrub, Ronnie-Raygun and Tricky Dick for what they let criminals do to our planet!! Dominion Theocracy, selfish bastards all of them, but not the case in NO.

[durablend]

See, you don't understand...

They don't care about no 'vironment...that's only for them liberuls.

:sarcasm:

[uppityperson]

3. What would you have them do, treat it first? librul.

Rock and hard place, what to do, how to do it, too bad no one is in charge.

[meisje]

4. and exactly how would you treat water with no water treatment plants?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Actually, if they were smart.... (and I am sure they are) they would

treat it just like the thing that it is. A sewer.

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[fishnfla]

6. There was an article on this in todays NYTIMES

there's far too much water to treat, no facilities, nor time to do so.

Lake Ponchatrain does get some tidal flow and has a bunch of feeder creeks and rivers

So ma nature is the filter, I guess

[napi21]

9. I heard tonight that they had to drain NO first, and would deal with

the lake later.

I have no idea if that's going to work or not! I guess it might as long as the lake doesn't drain into the Gulf. If they CAN somehow neutralize the toxins in the lake, it will be fine. I just don't know if that's possible.

[Jersey Devil]

10. Maybe they should throw in a 747 load of pool chlorine tabs?

Seems to me they don't have much choice.

[orpupilofnature57]

14. A Friend suggested it today, not a bad idea, and we're ditch diggers

And though I'm proud to be one, I want my president and OUR people at the top, to have more Ideas than two ditch diggers!

[TrueAmerican]

16. I get frogs that jump in my pool after it rains

They can't handle the chroline very much. If I don't get them out they die.

[Jersey Devil]

21. Yep, been there, done that

One year there were a gazillion toads in my yard one night half of which somehow wound up in the pool. I wound up in there with them scooping them out with a net before they died.

I was only half kidding but if the chlorine were introduced on the city side by the time it mixed in with the lake water it would be very much diluted and maybe not as much a danger to wildlife, certainly not more than what's in there now.

[dweller]

19. if 'they' is *moron's admins ...

they'll crash the 747 load of pool chlorine tabs into the lake.

then blame the local gov't for not building a runway first.

dp

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. So, as the debris comes through the sluicing mesh, will there be

humans? Debris has already clogged some of the pumping, from what I've heard from others, and have to wonder if there will be people (bodies) who will be "meshed" as the force of the water pulls them into the flow to the lake...

The whole aftermath mismanagement of Katrina is probably mire fucked up than we can possibly imagine. I so appreciate those media people who are there and staying. Without them, we wouldn't know half of the totally fucked up way things have been handled and how badly people have suffered and/or been mistreated.

[orpupilofnature57]

15. All the maladies of a disaster area. It would take forever to settle their

Elevation is so low.

[Whoa_Nelly]

17. Am not understanding your reply post, orpupilofnature57

What is "malities"? And what do you mean, "It would take forever to settle their...Elevation so low"?

Did you mean "maladies"? Did you mean "there"?

Would appreciate a clearer understanding of what you are trying to convey here...

[orpupilofnature57]

18. Sorry, Damn spell check, I mean the ground is saturated and LA is..

so low ,it would take forever for the water to run off.Thank you for the correct spelling.

[lithiumbomb]

20. too much to treat

It's obviously not an ideal situation, but there's simply _way_ too much water to treat in a timely manner. It's not something they can just run through some mystery device and shoot it out at the same rate. Like someone else said, mother nature will take care of it... eventually. Still, the lake will be quite nasty for years to come.

[Oilwellian]

22. It won't just be the lake

Lake Pontchartrain opens into the gulf.