Can the standing water be cleaned thru chlorination?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

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[phantom power]

1. It can be sterilized. That won't remove any toxic chemicals.

[thereismore]

2. chlorine will kill some bacteria, but may kill you - it's highly toxic n/t

[Viking12]

3. Not without a place to put and keep it.

H20 treatment needs to be done within a closed system. Treating and releasing is futile.

[eyepaddle]

4. That'd kill biologic activity, but it wouldn't

neutralize chemical contamination. There is an unknown soup there rght now, and adding chlorine could have highly toxic effects. Such as if it combines with ammonia it will evolve lethla chloramine gas. Not to mention the difficulty of uniformly mixing the chlorine.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. It's not just plain old contamination:

It's raw sewage, mixed with some salt water, gasoline, dead bodies, and lots of toxic chemicals. I cringe when I see pictures of people wading through it. I have a feeling that the medical units are going to be treating a lot of gastrointestinal diseases and nasty skin conditions in the coming days.

[MercutioATC]

6. If your goal is chlorinated, oily, sewage-laden salt water, yes.

It'd kill off some of the microorganisms, but none of the non-organic pollutants.

...and it'd still be nasty salt water.

[SidDithers]

7. One quart of motor oil can pollute 250,000 gallons of water...

Think of all the cars and trucks that are underwater in NO right now.

What a freakin' mess. :cry:

Sid

[growlypants]

8. do you know how much chlorine they'd have to dump in there in order

to "clean" that water???? That qty of chlorine ITSELF is probably toxic.