RBHarter
West Central AR
Warm day , muggy , had enough rain last night to keep the windshield wet going home .
I grew up in the Truckee and Carson Irrigation system in the great Basin . It is an amazing water system that does bizarre with water . There's a river that has it's head water springs straight line about 115 miles apart but runs north then west and south 250 miles to get there , from a spring to a sink .
The Carson river is said to have high levels of mercury in from the Comstock days in Virginia City . You can eat the fish just not as a steady diet . The NEPA won't allow a mining function clean up of the middle river into the lower river and irrigation areas ...... Because one might dislodge the mercury pools and contaminate the river which is a collective concept that makes my brain hurt . It's a captive system if it's in there it's not going anywhere and the more of it you take out the less there is to be trapped in the system.......on the other hand it's in a cold water run off river in pockets and if it goes worst case it would end up in shallow warm reservoirs ......
The irony of that is that the mercury originates with the lead , silver , and gold that was mined and remain to be mined .......
Briefly the streets of Virginia City NV were paved in silver ....... All that blue mud .
Can't clean it up because the clean up might make a bigger mess than the mess they should clean up that amounts to sweeping a hard clay floor . Sure you're going to sweep up the dirt but it's still a dirt floor .......
I grew up in the Truckee and Carson Irrigation system in the great Basin . It is an amazing water system that does bizarre with water . There's a river that has it's head water springs straight line about 115 miles apart but runs north then west and south 250 miles to get there , from a spring to a sink .
The Carson river is said to have high levels of mercury in from the Comstock days in Virginia City . You can eat the fish just not as a steady diet . The NEPA won't allow a mining function clean up of the middle river into the lower river and irrigation areas ...... Because one might dislodge the mercury pools and contaminate the river which is a collective concept that makes my brain hurt . It's a captive system if it's in there it's not going anywhere and the more of it you take out the less there is to be trapped in the system.......on the other hand it's in a cold water run off river in pockets and if it goes worst case it would end up in shallow warm reservoirs ......
The irony of that is that the mercury originates with the lead , silver , and gold that was mined and remain to be mined .......
Briefly the streets of Virginia City NV were paved in silver ....... All that blue mud .
Can't clean it up because the clean up might make a bigger mess than the mess they should clean up that amounts to sweeping a hard clay floor . Sure you're going to sweep up the dirt but it's still a dirt floor .......
