Re: [Paddlewise] my story is better than your story

From: Mark Zen <canoeist_at_netbox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:44:31 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Dan Hagen wrote:

> 
> Dave Kruger wrote:
> 
> > ...<snip>...
> > What do they put in the water where you live?  
> > ...
> 
> Oh, the usual stuff.  Up high, glacial flour and silt.  A bit further
> down, fish feces and decaying Salmon.  Below that, cow dung (complete
> with e-coli), effluents from septic-system overflow, urban/suburban
> run-off (containing lawn chemicals, petroleum products, etc.), and
> lately (from who knows where) cryptosporidium.  Finally, a brew of
> dioxins and other chemicals and organics.  Mix well and dump into the
> bay...  :-(
> 
> But hey--it could be worse.  At least dead whales in our area don't need
> to be disposed of in toxic waste dumps (as has been necessary on
> occasion in the northeast, on the St. Lawrence).  Nothing to grin about
> here.
> 
> Dan Hagen

no, you guys use 400 pounds [180Kg] of dynomite, and blow it sky high ;-)

mark

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