Doug's, Rowena, and Waterfront Park closed because of sewage

svantuyl · Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 14

For everyone's information, The Dalles wastewater plant has again discharged sewage into the Columbia.

http://t.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2016/may/05/health-warning-issued-td-waterfront/?templates=tablet

biffmalibu · Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 556

Gross. I remember the "blobs" from a few years ago. Would make for a good horror film, combined with a radioactive giant sturgeon roaming the river. I fantasize about making this B-movie, complete with fishermen, windsurfers, kiters, oblivious stoners, and bikini-clad California summer princesses emerging from the smelly muck.

Might be a good time and reason to try Roosevelt, The Wall or Rufus over the weekend. There are so many eddies between The Dalles and Cascade locks that it will not clear for several days.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

I grew up playing in a river and a big creek full of obvious untreated sewage. The only result I've noticed? I've had only one cold and one case of flu in my life.

Utah closed huge freshwater Willard Bay because they couldn't explain the major fish kill. The result? I had it to myself on a windy summer day (it's usually packed with motor boats from fishermen to hydroplanes).

People actually windsurf at Nuclear Alley and Jones Beach, both toxic marine and industrial dumps of waste from sewage to dioxin.

The Delta.

The solution to pollution is dilution.

inlandsea · Joined: 29 Sep 1996 Posts: 174

Good Fishing for Finless Brown Trout.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Guys, it wasn't unprocessed sewage that got in the river. It was treated water lacking only the final uv sanitization step. It's microscopic bugs, not turds. We probably pick up more pathogens walking barefoot in the park, especially if the park allows dogs and kids in diapers.

Er ... it's the kids, not the dogs, in the diapers.

svantuyl · Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 14

The signs warning of contaminated water were removed yesterday, May 6, 2016.

http://t.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2016/may/06/water-quality-was-and-safe-tests-show/

surfersteve · Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 203

Isobars ... you are really leaving yourself open with your posts here. Enough said. Just because you have a strong immune system does not mean excessive pathogens are healthy. Not everyone dies from smoking, but there has yet to be one study which correlates smoking with improved health.

WMP · Joined: 30 May 2000 Posts: 671

Good motivator to make ALL your jibes Wink

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935