On Jul 11, 1:58*pm, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:
"Josepi" fired this volley :

The chemicals have to go somewhere. They don't just disappear into
thin air.

Actually, you're fairly close, Josepi. *They just disappear into 'thin'
earth -- a layer only a foot or so deep.

And they do; *Bleach breaks down rapidly into chlorine, oxygen, and
calcium oxide, which further combines into calcium hydroxide, then
combines with organics to form harmless soaps.

TSP breaks down into sodium salts and phosphoric acid, which combines
with calcium carbonate in the soil.

TSP's only heavy-hitting harm to the environment is as an algal nutrient,
where it causes fish-choking blooms in static or heavily-contaminated
bodies of water.

LLoyd

Or the Gulf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)

TMT