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2007-05-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2007-05-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Hey, if all ya got is cherries, make cherry pie. Take the barge to Columbia and dump it on Hugo.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-25 01:42|| 2007-05-25 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Hugo is in Venezuela, not Columbia. Yet.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-05-25 07:24|| 2007-05-25 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Phosphorous is the single most critical element in fertilizer, and the hardest to find & process. This project could be a phosphorous mine/recycling program as much as a lake restoration program. Bag the muck up and sell it to farmers.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-05-25 07:27|| 2007-05-25 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Yup. Make muck purchases mandatory with purchases of fertilizer. They're the ones who put it there in the first place.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-05-25 08:02|| 2007-05-25 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Deacon: Wonder where they're gonna put it. It's Hazardous Waste.
Doc Steve: Just dump it in some suburb somewhere, no one will notice.
I thought the reporter's idea of putting it in Dolphin Stadium was a good one. Couldn't stink any worse than the team.

Posted by GK 2007-05-25 08:27|| 2007-05-25 08:27|| Front Page Top

#6 The muck could have been removed years earlier but for the regs that, for all practical purposes, prohibit dredging. Thus the State has to wait for droughts to get this done. Regarding disposel, this should not be a problem. Florida (like most States) has landfills that have reached capacity and need to be topped with material that provides a growth medium. Florida also has abandoned sugar plantations which could use a layer of muck.

Posted by mhw 2007-05-25 11:06|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-05-25 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 life-killing nutrient

Gotta go think on that for a while.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-05-25 11:09|| 2007-05-25 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Phosphorous is the biomass-limiting element on the planet. There is excess available supply of all the other elements common to life (carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, etc.), but not phosphorous. 'New' phosphorous enters the ecosystem with volcanic eruptions - hence the exceptional fertility of volcanic hillsides, once new life gets started.
I was not being facetious when I said they should bag this stuff and sell it - it really could be a business opportunity.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-05-25 11:44|| 2007-05-25 11:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I went to the depot for some dry lake bottom
all they had left was north shore muck
I bought 8 bags and drove home in a downpour
that's how I got a gator in my pickup truck.

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Posted by Opie 2007-05-25 11:53|| 2007-05-25 11:53|| Front Page Top

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