Comments on: Snow or rain, it all flows downstream

By: SK

SK — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:20:09 +0000

What about the freshwater/non-tidal inputs? The first order and second order streams and their salt-intolerant biological assemblages? Due to the extent that salt is used for snow it persists/accumulates. The pollutants this article discusses are a serious issue be careful about so easily pushing aside the problem with excess salt in the watershed.

By: RedClownfish Aquarium Supply

RedClownfish Aquarium Supply — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:17:59 +0000

Never even knew about snow dumping and the pollutants in the snow! Never snows here in southern California so the fish don’t have to worry about that =)

By: Vicky Chrisner

Vicky Chrisner — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:10:26 +0000

You say in this post that the water runoff does not go through a filtering process, but it does. As it runs along landscape it either gets cleaner or dirtier. With the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Act, developers are being forced to include more landscaping of certain types so that as water flows toward drains chemicals from lawns and such are somewhat filtered out. Also, much of the water soaks into the soil, and gets to the Chesapeake by way of underground (naturally occurring) water ways. The process of soaking through the soil is a filtering process.

While in this case it may be necessary for the trucks to dump the snow into the Harbor, let’s face it, it would have been much better environmentally to keep the bob cats, front loaders, and dump trucks parked and allowed the waters natural flow to get it there.