Where is all the contaminated water being pumped?

[justiceischeap]

Two years ago there was a hurricane here in VA and someone forgot to shut one of our tunnels in time so it flooded. The water had to be hauled out in tankers because they couldn't pump it into the river because it had road gunk in it. Is that the Mississippi they're pumping that water into?

[msongs]

1. lake ponchartrain where the clean water came from. the flood did not

come from the mississippi river.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/impeachbush.htm

[htuttle]

2. It's being pumped 'away'.

With 'away' being into the Mississippi, I believe.

[wiggs]

3. Great question.

But environmental regulations will be suspended. All that toxic junk, including 2 million gallons of oil that leaked, will end up in the gulf.

[thecrow]

10. Remember at the beginning of this when Bu$h** suspended

environmental standards? This is what it's all about.
He gets away with MURDER and then he gets away with murder again.

[Be Brave]

4. The lake, of course, is connected to the gulf of mexico. n/t

[justiceischeap]

5. So that canal that the big tube pumping water

Isn't Lake Ponchatrain is it? It looks more like a river than lake.

[El Supremo]

6. Into the 17th St. Canal

Which goes into Lake Ponchartrain.

My wife asked the same question, but I don't think that is nearly as much a problem as what residue is going to be left in New Orleans. They will have to rename it from the Crescent City to the Septic City.

[justiceischeap]

7. Amazing! (eom)

[kestrel91316]

14. Yeah, but everybody's lawns are sure gonna be GREEN!!

[trof]

8. Straight into the Gulf of Mexico.

I posted a thread on this a few days ago.
Can't search and post a link now.

The Yucatan Current flows fron NO to the west.
The Florida Current flows to the east.

It is a highly toxic brew that won't "go away".
It will be with us for a long time.
I fear for our Alabama gulf coast commercial fishing, shrimping, and oystering industry.

And our tourism.
We have sugar white beaches.
What happens when the surf is "toxic"?

[justiceischeap]

9. I understand that they need to get the water out quickly

But to the detriment of the environment? Of course, that is par for the course with this administration.

[Winston702]

13. #1 priority is to remove water

It would take roughly 4.5 months to treat every billion gallons of flood water. This assumes that an operational treatment system exists.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. What I keep wondering is

... what impact it will have on the Gulf and if there will be toxins that can be transferred to humans who eat the fish and shellfish from there.

[justiceischeap]

12. Hate to break it to you

But there are already toxins in our waters that are being passed on the humans who eat fish and shellfish. Our already polluted waters are effecting that. This is just going to make it, most likely, unedible from those regions and if the EPA says otherwise, I wouldn't believe them.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. Yes, I realized that

It's the element of *if* it will be labeled as suitable for human consumption that I'm concerned about.

What test will be done, how far will the toxins reach, at what levels will they be present, and will the consumer ever know?

[MojoXN]

15. Back in the lake, I'm sure. Don't eat the fish for a few decades.

I grew up on the Ohio river. Because of all the shit that was dumped by the steel companies back in the '50's and '60s, you're taking your chances by eating anything from the river, especially catfish, which is a damn shame, because catfish is mighty fine eatin'! My guess is that Lake Pontchartrain will be the same way before all is said and done.

MojoXN