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Mistress Rose
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 24 10:25 am Post subject: |
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O2and BOD(fermented water) are pence a go as wet chemistry
a pre loved HPLC and some consumables/standards is not daft money, per test it is not expensive
a lab could do pro bono for little more than the time involved, i could set up a garage lab for less than a few grand
npk ,O2, basic microbiology and a selection of likely organics is pretty easy to check in aquatic environmental samples
larger life forms needs little more than a net, sieves, waders and a microscope etc
this interweb thing will help with how to and why for the new to the game
basic analysis for common pollutants and probable "odd ones" is within well-informed citizen capacity
the historians can play context with old records etc
and so on
it would be better to have a well resourced big toothed official regulator with extensive monitoring and zero tolerance to polluters, that would make being clean the best option
we haven't at the mo, evidence and loud pointing from concerned citizens is a tactic that is legal and at the least troublesome to the polluter at best very troublesome for the polluter
after the event is too late, make polluting very expensive, financially and personally for company decision makers and for the shareholders, and difficult to do in secret or in full view with no chance of a meaningful rebuke which make it the most profitable option
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gz
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45614 Location: Essex
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dpack
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 24 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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best part of 50 yrs a river i know well has gone from cat 5 = dead in any good way, via cat 1 to 2= not pristine wilderness but a healthy ecosystem with a bottom to top food chain with heron, kingfisher, brown trout or grayling at the top depending on the oxygenation from the shape and flow and the local ecosystem
and back to cat 5 dead from a combo of unregulated chem peeps having "incidents", assorted one off "private" misdemeanours and systematic discharges as that is cheaper than providing the sewerage services in the contract they have with the citizens
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other aquatic issues
re "well meaning" but not like that
2 mink* a mile did not help my well known river, but it was healthy enough to support them and retain a full range aquatic ecosystem, although that was not "natural" after 150 years of human challenges
if i ever find out who "liberated" 9000 of the fluffy monsters, they have a problem
during the last few years of mink farm licences and objections to the trade, i was part of the anti mink thing to ensure no fool turned any loose
the wpc trying to be "nice" while we all had lunch, was quite surprised that cute and fluffy was not on my agenda, no vermin by any means was not the reasoning she had been briefed for
not on my watch, those things are ok in the middle of arboreal wetland wilderness a long way away, anywhere else they are usually dangeroos vermin
hey ho, the pollution will kill their food, which should thin them out,
i should have got a few hats when i could |
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