[neverdem]

Alec Johnson/Watertown Daily Times via Associated Press
Dead fish piled up last week in the Black River, not far from Watertown, N.Y., and Lake Ontario.

This is next to Fort Drum, NY.(Google Map)

[SandRat]

Did Hillery go skinny dipping again?

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.

[LauraleeBraswell]

excuse my language but shi* happens.

[HangnJudge]

Best look before you leap in this stream

[Revel]

This is only the tip of the iceberg. The model for factory farming seems to stem by design from Cornell university. The problem it that it is poisoning the land across the country. It is not just a big spill like this that is doing the damage. Farmers are dumping this stuff on too little land and they immune from the damages that it is doing. They are protected by law. Lobbyist's have seen to it. Gone are the days when farmers dumped a fair amount of solid manure on there pastures to fertilize there crops. They are literally turning the soil in there fields to toxic zones with this liquid manure. Sadly the damage is not limited to there fields. It is contaminating the waters supplies of entire towns with nitrate and who knows what else. Nitrate levels in water supplies are above the federal standards for the first time in areas nearby the Fields where this stuff in being dumped. And the federal government expects private well owners and small towns to clean up the water. This is in spite of the fact that recent studies show that in the long wrong this factory farm model does more to hurt the land and food production that the old fashioned model which did not pile more nitrate into the land and water than it could handle. Does this stink! You bet it does. And it is about time that someone puts a stop to it.

[Old Professer]

That's a very dramatic photograph; but it is almost comical to read that this occurred in the "Black River" downstream from "Lowville" and made public by Frank Flack.


Casting aside the "Opie" image of master Wisner one might be inclined to ask why these throwbacks to a more tranquil age didn't raise an alarm before these prized fish presented themselves belly-up to a hired practioner of the photographic arts.

In times past cows did what cows do where and when they do it and the results made themselves manifest in commensurate quanties downstream and downhill; however, in this enlighted age we dam up all the damm crap and scream bloody murder when the dam breaks.

My opinion is, they need to invest a great deal of money in waste management and concentrate on point-source emissions with a particular focus on large-scale discharges.

Let no flat rock go uncovered.

[taxesareforever]

but so much manure escaped that the contamination grew to roughly a fourth the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Not to make light of the spill but take a look at how nature corrected the environment in the Valdez spill. Of course, pessimists will play the spill to the hilt. Just think how many environmental engineers will get jobs from this.

[SuziQ]

CRAP!

[stocksthatgoup]

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