Re: [Paddlewise] Bioberm for salt marsh protection

From: Jackie Myers <jackie_at_muddypuppies.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:08:37 -0700
Deep Water Horizon has actually set up a website to take suggestions 
such as yours.  Click on the suggestion button to the right at:

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/


Article about it here....

Oil Spill Suggestion Box?  BP is Taking Your Ideas

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/05/oil-spill-suggestion-box-bp-is-taking-your-ideas/comments/page/7/

Jackie


skimmer wrote:

>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
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