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[seabass]

Smile1 there has been talk about the ct river and the eating of its fish.

there are a few towns...holyoke, chicopee,springfield and some others that are mandated by the epa to bring in line the Combined Sewer Overflows... the sewers and the storm drains are combined so that when there is a rain storm and the water is too much for the treatment plant - it (raw sewage) is left to flow untreated into the ct river. Bash1 Cry1

MachineGun this has been going on forever. Swear1

it continues right now as these towns are scrambling for money to meet this FEDERAL MANDATE.
Cry1 chicopee is doin it on their own - thats why your rates went thru the roof.
Cry1 holyoke hired an outside co. (aquarion) to take care of the problem...thats why our rates went thru the roof.

MachineGun springfield...well...not too sure thats on top of their list...ie..the break on the 4' sewer line right into the westfieldYuck1

Grinning1 just some "food" for thought - to each his ownThumbsup

[billyo]

Sounds pretty shitty to meNotsure

[Capt.Shay]

Lesson Learned

DON'T EAT THE BROWN BASS !!!

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[Crazy Joe]

One damn fish I keep,and you won't let it go!!!!Tongue1Tongue1 Thanks1.I remember when you knew what day it was by the color of the river. We all all doomed,so F it .just make sure all the government people get another raise. Cuase they have this country it check! ThumbsupMad1Mad1Mad1Mad1Mad1Mad1Swear1Swear1Swear1Swear1Swear1

[seabass]

One damn fish I keep,and you won't let it go!!!!Tongue1Tongue1 Thanks1.I remember when you knew what day it was by the color of the river. We all all doomed,so F it .just make sure all the government people get another raise. Cuase they have this country it check! ThumbsupMad1Mad1Mad1Mad1Mad1Mad1Swear1Swear1Swear1Swear1Swear1

hey jeff a. - insert RANT switch here" "...thanks MachineGun What1

[Crestliner]

It'll be many years before our river is "cleaned" up according to Federal mandates. The problem here though is definition. Look at the Oxbow and surrounding fields. Tons of fertilizer residue spills into the 'bow from the farm lands every year. Is that more....or less....detrimental to our health than sewage overflow which happens infrequently(I hope!)? And to what degree? Then you have acid rain & mercury contanimation. I don't think I'll live long enough to see a "clean" river; but then again, it probably is as clean now as most other rivers in our county. I don't think an occaisional meal is going to hurt most folk's health. I'll still buy my fish at the market; knowing that it's probably just as contaminated!

[Toad]

I peed in the ocean once......better not eat the fish!

[Crestliner]

Eeewwwwweeee!!!

[Uncle Rickers]

Guess we will probably never see any of our River Systems clean enough to drink, but then again, our CT is deemd, most of the time anyways, safe to swim in. I'd say that's improvement. Still wouldn't eat anything that had to swim thru the 5 million gallons of Westfield's doo-doo to get here.

[noresman]

I grew up near the Westfield river and when I was a kid the only thing that lived in it was suckers and eels. The river used to literally turn a different color every day from the crap the paper mills were dumping in it. There were 3 mills within a 1/4 mile on the river (Strathmore,Premoid, and Southworth) now it is clean enough to stock with trout all the way to the Ct. River. (sewage spill excluded)