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- From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- Subject: Re: Sheep in Organizations+
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.162609.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:26:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.040334.26406@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, bobh@fuji.hwr.arizona.edu (Bob Harrington) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec25.032326.1@acad3.alaska.edu> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
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- > [convoluted discussion of land owenership deleted]
- >
- >>Its interesting to note that
- >>in most of the mining operations that I know on rivers that the miners most
- >>times return the water to the river cleaner than it was when they got it..
- >
- > Cleaner? Please provide details. This claim is fascinating.
- >
- >>Maybe not as good as the EPA standards, but most of those standards are pure
- >>bull and made up by some scientist who generally has no knowledge of the rivers
- >>they are making standards for..
- >
- > Do pristine Alaskan rivers usually not meet EPA standards? That seems to be
- > the implication of what you are saying.
- >
- >>Michael Adams alias Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu
- >
- > Bob Harrington
- > Hydrology and Water Resources
- > University of Arizona
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- Many rivers in alaska would never make EPA standards. To much silt and natural
- contaminates.. I know I might be treading on a possible sacred cow of yours
- Bob, so Ill try to tread softly and not look like a idiot.
- Well of what I have heard from minig friends of mine (I know its second hand
- and from a quite unboaes source) But many times they are cleaner. I have tasted
- the water. Some water sources here in Alaska are unfit for human drinking
- before the miners get them.. I do kno the effects of mining, I have seen the
- trailings, and know of a few places where the early miners left mercury and
- other chemicals laying around. But miners are better and more aware than days
- gone by.
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- Michael Adams alias Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu
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