fdt
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La Paz Bay very contaminated "No swimming"
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsudcaliforniano/notas/n623254.htm
Note says that due to a major spill on Feb 29th the waters on the bay are very contaminated.
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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bajajudy
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yuck............to the max
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Diver
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Consider this progress.
A few years ago, they just wouldn't have told anyone.
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Cervisin
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Let me go into search and see if "he" was posting that date... that might be the overflow.....
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BMG
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I can't believe the bay is very clean at any time. Hard to have a bay with the population of the La Paz area living around it and not have some degree
of pollution. Sewage treatment is expensive and the infrastructure is not always the best in Mexico. I would like to see long term numbers on the
testing and see how much growth is impacting the bay.
Seems that La Paz isn't the only city having sewage problems though. Victoria, BC, Canada: "Raw sewage laced with hundreds of deadly toxins is dumped
at a rate of 5 million litres an hour into waters just off Victoria’s harbour. It is injected from two one-meter wide pipes 65 meters under the
surface by twin 1000 horsepower motors. It is unseen. No one thinks much about it."
I think the world is run by C- students.
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DENNIS
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Seems like people are just eating way too much these days. Close all the La Paz restaurants and save the bay.
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Sharksbaja
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Too many dump-lings?
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
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Martyman
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I seriously doubt if the discharge in Victoria ,Canada is "raw sewage". It has most likely gone through primary treatment (removing floaters and
sinkers).
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Oso
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
I can't believe the bay is very clean at any time. Hard to have a bay with the population of the La Paz area living around it and not have some degree
of pollution. Sewage treatment is expensive and the infrastructure is not always the best in Mexico. I would like to see long term numbers on the
testing and see how much growth is impacting the bay.
Seems that La Paz isn't the only city having sewage problems though. Victoria, BC, Canada: "Raw sewage laced with hundreds of deadly toxins is dumped
at a rate of 5 million litres an hour into waters just off Victoria’s harbour. It is injected from two one-meter wide pipes 65 meters under the
surface by twin 1000 horsepower motors. It is unseen. No one thinks much about it." |
One of my favorite travel and food shows is Tony Bourdain's "No Reservations". Among the "attractions" of Cleveland, Ohio, was surfing on the shore
of Lake Erie. Wet-suited surfers were enjoying the zero degree weather while surfing brown water next to a sewer outfall. They regularly applied
Hydrogen Peroxide to their ears in hopes of staving off infections. Nothing in the rest of the show made me any more enthusiastic about visiting
Cleveland.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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windgrrl
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| Quote: | | Seems that La Paz isn't the only city having sewage problems though. Victoria, BC, Canada: "Raw sewage laced with hundreds of deadly toxins is dumped
at a rate of 5 million litres an hour into waters just off Victoria’s harbour. It is injected from two one-meter wide pipes 65 meters under the
surface by twin 1000 horsepower motors. It is unseen. No one thinks much about it." |
I have heard several tmes that Victoria voters have thought about the issue numerous times. The issue of actually treating the sewage comes up every
few years and they vote "No" resoundingly. Apparently some have likened the Straits of Jan de Fuca to a large toilet that flushes once per day. Isn't
it just a wonder how we think nature can just take care of herself?
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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fdt
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From the looks of things the Paraiso del Mar people at El Mogote don't like these Waterkeepers / Guardianes del Agua people
http://www.guardianesdelagua.org/en/newsroom.php?nota=17
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Martyman
I seriously doubt if the discharge in Victoria ,Canada is "raw sewage". It has most likely gone through primary treatment (removing floaters and
sinkers). |
Only if you consider running through a screen treatment.
"Sewage from Esquimalt, View Royal, the Vic-West area of Victoria and most of Saanich
flows through the Northwest Trunk Sewer System to its terminus at Macaulay Point where it
is screened and then pumped by the Macaulay Point pump station through a 900 mm
diameter outfall into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Other than being screened, this combination
of sewage does not receive any treatment before it is discharged into the ocean at the
approximate average rate of 37,000 m3 per day from an outfall located approximately 1.7 km
south of the pumping station."
I think the world is run by C- students.
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windgrrl
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
| Quote: | Originally posted by Martyman
I seriously doubt if the discharge in Victoria ,Canada is "raw sewage". It has most likely gone through primary treatment (removing floaters and
sinkers). |
Only if you consider running through a screen treatment.
...this combination
of sewage does not receive any treatment before it is discharged into the ocean at the
approximate average rate of 37,000 m3 per day from an outfall located approximately 1.7 km
south of the pumping station." |
...and the floaters and sinkers (of all imagnable varieties) are quite visible to the eye of local divers.
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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Diver
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| Quote: | Originally posted by windgrrl
...and the floaters and sinkers (of all imagnable varieties) are quite visible to the eye of local divers. |
Must be great spearfishing !?!?! YUCK !!
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Iflyfish
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OMG, OMG, OMG......Yikes!
Iflyfish
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