Poo In The River

[patric]

City of Wichita officials are working to repair a leaking valve at an intermediate pump station at the city's main wastewater treatment plant, the apparent cause of elevated bacteria levels in the Arkansas River.

Those levels, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said in a Sunday news release, were the cause of a public health advisory issued Friday for the river.

KDHE spokeswoman Miranda Steele said that residents should have no contact with the river from the Lincoln Street Bridge in central Wichita to the Oklahoma state line.

Steele said pets and livestock should be kept away from the river as well. A fish kill in areas with "black, odiferous water" has been reported along the river between south Wichita and Derby.

State and local officials will work through the holiday weekend to assess the situation, the state spokeswoman said. The affected portion of the river is south and downstream of Wichita River Festival activities, which kick off on Friday.

Steele said the full impact of the untreated wastewater isn't known, but the health advisory will remain in effect.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Just a bunch of alarmist sensationalism...it will be fine by the time it gets to Keystone lake.  If we can only keep the EPA out of it, everything will be fine....*



*Not my real thoughts on the matter.

[guido911]

Did anyone manage to catch Tulsa's Police Department in the Wichita area recently? I bet they are responsible...

[Hoss]

They probably all took a huge dump in the ditch that runs down the middle of I-135...

[Breadburner]

Did anyone manage to catch Tulsa's Police Department in the Wichita area recently? I bet they are responsible...

Heh...Top-shelf....!!!

[Red Arrow]

Just a bunch of alarmist sensationalism...it will be fine by the time it gets to Keystone lake.  If we can only keep the EPA out of it, everything will be fine....*

As they say in Kansas, "Keep Kansas clean, send your waste to Oklahoma".

[shadows]

What else is new?  Wichita has been sending their s---t down for us to help them smell up for over a century.  Since the increasing urban and the reducing rural areas along with the increasing admitting of immigrants the cities cannot keep up with the need to sanitize the human waste.  With the increasing urban population this has the "bigger the better" cliché in question.  Best thing to do is help Wichita smell it up. 

[Teatownclown]

Our environment is decaying....the heat compounds it all. Tulsa is a city gone foul....

When will the truth be told?

[AquaMan]

Our environment is decaying....the heat compounds it all. Tulsa is a city gone foul....

When will the truth be told?

When people like you tell us. Do you know something you're holding back?

[Teatownclown]

Yes. Everyone here will be happy to hear that TTC will be moving to a safer environment someday in the next 10 years.

I wonder what the lung cancer rate is here in TeaTown of those who never smoked.

Don't worry about the Arkansas River....start worrying about the air you breathe.

We will know more someday when Jim Inhofe is gone.....

[guido911]

When will the truth be told?

Okay. You are a wretched, pathetic, POS dooshbag of a human being. Happy now?

[AquaMan]

Yes. Everyone here will be happy to hear that TTC will be moving to a safer environment someday in the next 10 years.

I wonder what the lung cancer rate is here in TeaTown of those who never smoked.

Don't worry about the Arkansas River....start worrying about the air you breathe.

We will know more someday when Jim Inhofe is gone.....

I presume the lung cancer rate would be higher directly north and south of the refineries where the prevailing seasonal winds blow. The question is whether anyone is doing any statistical research to prove that.

edit: the corollary question would be, "does it matter?" It would be nice for the surrounding homeowners to be able to make an informed decision as to whether they should move or not.

[RecycleMichael]

The portion of the Arkansas River running through Tulsa is the cleanest it has been in my lifetime. Ozone levels in Tulsa County have improved 8 of the last ten years. Tulsa's drinking water is among the purest in America. more than 25,000 trees have been planted in Tulsa in the last four years. Tulsa is about to launch the most comprehensive recycling program for the region.

Don't listen to Chicken Little. The sky isn't falling.

[guido911]

Don't listen to Chicken Little. The sky isn't falling.

Chicken Little is back?

[AquaMan]

I'm not worried about the river so much or the ozone in the air. I work near the refinery and people seem to forget that it is a 24/7 operation. The wind blows routinely from the south all summer and from the north all winter through that corridor. The smells are strong and lasting. Add in the galvanizing, the flourine operation and the cement plants and you have some constantly fouled air. Its only occassionally that it blows to the east side of the river. I just wonder if there are any studies showing the effects of those operations on the nearby residents.

Calm me down Mike, I would love some reassurance.