Bob F wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:22:18 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:
Yep. You've got to consider the downstream (no pun intended)
consequences.
Just last year, Seattle finally got with the program and quit using
salt on its icy roadways after someone pointed out that the salt
would pass through the storm sewer system into Pugent Sound.
What? They thought they were changing the salinity of the Pacific
ocean?
I would be a lot more worried about the oil that runs off the roads.
Harrumph!
In the great crusade to save the planet, avoiding road salt being
dumped in the Pacific is roughly the same magnitude as erecting wind
turbines.
It's for the children.
And only idiots think that is the reason.
Evidently, then, the mayor of Seattle is an idiot because that's the reason
he gave for discontinuing roadway salt.
Most of the runoff in the
Seattle area ends up in freshwater streams and lakes way before it
gets near salt water.
And these streams and lakes empty into what exactly?
Do you believe everything the right wing wackos
say?
Right-wing wackos didn't say anything. It was the mayor of Seattle. Being a
Democrat, I don't THINK he's was a right-wing wacko. The policy of avoiding
salt is decades old, but was recently reversed by former mayor Nickels in
2009. He lost his re-election bid anyway.