While raking cut grass in the front yard, I got to thinking about protecting the marshes from the oil that will continue to come ashore for the coming months. The sand berms being constructed have the disadvantage of changing the normal water ecology of the marshes. Less damage might occur if they laid down a "bio-berm" of straw bales, hay bales or any cut field growth that would rapidly absorb/enmesh the oil blobs being driven into the marshes. Such a "bio-berm" should be fairly easy to collect and remove in the future. This could end up being a new oil recovery industry in the region to replace or supplement fishing/shrimping. We would call this BP-supported process "berm-shaving". It would help rehabilitate BP's reputation and be known as the BP- BS answer to the oil spill crisis. Chuck Sutherland *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 25 2010 - 08:59:22 PDT
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