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| Thread ID: 105280 | 2009-11-25 19:20:00 | The Filthiest River on the Planet | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 833642 | 2009-11-26 08:27:00 | The immigrants were assisted to fill positions which natural born Kiwis did not take on like Union shop stewards for example. :horrified :clap :clap |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 833643 | 2009-11-26 17:05:00 | Why do you morons take over every thread and ruin it ! The title is polluted rivers and not poms or rocks ! Having to read through 3 pages of dribble is a bit much |
Digby (677) | ||
| 833644 | 2009-11-26 17:13:00 | Cry me a river. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 833645 | 2009-11-26 17:51:00 | I will tolerate bus drivers when they learn when to stop digging holes for themselves and stop whinging, my word they say the British whinge they have nothing on you | gary67 (56) | ||
| 833646 | 2009-11-26 19:14:00 | Yet another pollutant effect that has occured in the Hutt River since more intensive dairy farming has been the appearance of toxic algae mats every summer, dogs dying, and warning signs placed along the river banks about the dangers of swimming. Cyanobacteria is present in small harmless quantities in all waterways afaik, but when fed by cow shite and sunshine, it multiplies umpteen million fold. The Hutt is pristine clean above the confluence with the Pakuratahi at the water works, but no doubt pollution is added from the dairying at Kaitoke. It really gets bad below the confluence with the Mangaroa at Te Marua, and from there toxic algae mats, in a bad year, are observed right down to the river mouth at Seaview. I would expect, but haven't heard, that the Manawatu would have the same problem. Edit: www.huttcity.govt.nz |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 833647 | 2009-11-26 19:38:00 | Was the small stream (Waiwhetu ? ? ?) that passed the Feltex plant in Seaview a candidate for this list? It used to be pretty impressive back in the days when I was commuting from Wainuiomata to Wellington. It varied through many colours, and it was possible to forecast which carpet colour would be in fashion next. A glance of the bright red (or green, or - - ) wasterway from the bus window in the pale pre-dawn light always added a bit of sparkle to the commute. A bit upstream of that gaudy stretch a rather foolish resident burned the collected foliage of a bit of gardening frenzy and succeded in setting the creek alight. That cleared a lot of stuff, and gave the firemen a lot of exercise I imagine. Plants growing beside that creek must have been hardy indeed, their tolerance for weird stuff could have vaccinated people against Chernobyl's puny emissions. Possibly it no longer exists having solidified in the aftermath of intensive industrial effluent. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 833648 | 2009-11-26 20:58:00 | Was the small stream (Waiwhetu ? ? ? ) that passed the Feltex plant in Seaview a candidate for this list ? Possibly it no longer exists having solidified in the aftermath of intensive industrial effluent. Read Terry's #3 in this thread. The Waiwhetu Stream is having over 25000 tonnes of sludge removed. www.stuff.co.nz |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 833649 | 2009-11-26 21:52:00 | What roots rivers is toxic sludge with PCB and stuff in it. America has a big problem with some of their rivers which may never recover. I couldnt imagine the Hutt river being in that league because it does some mighty big floods which must purge out the crap. I believe there are now fish in the Thames (not the real one in Coromandel but one in england) Those old buggers never hesitated using rivers as means of waste disposal did they? |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 833650 | 2009-11-27 08:09:00 | Read Terry's #3 in this thread. The Waiwhetu Stream is having over 25000 tonnes of sludge removed. www.stuff.co.nz Thanks, I missed that. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 833651 | 2009-11-27 08:59:00 | Was the small stream (Waiwhetu ? ? ? ) that passed the Feltex plant in Seaview a candidate for this list ? A small stream is just that... a small stream. This review was of rivers. And +1 for Digby... It's about a river. Not immigration. Get off of your soapbox and start taking your pills again. If you want to rant then start a thread to that effect. The #1 problem in these rivers is agriculture, specifically dairy farming. We're one of the top farming nations in the world and we have to take the good with the bad with the awful. Still, it doesn't help Palmerston North dumping millions of meters of raw effluent into the river... |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
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