they truck the snow away and dump it in the ocean.
This seems wise.
The contaminated snow piles are usually melted by mid june.
But...don't the contaminants still make their way to the ocean, just six months later? (We've been discussing it over on the LJ version of this post, and can't figure out why it's okay as runoff and not as...pushoff. Or whatever the term would be.)
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Date: 2011-02-05 09:02 pm (UTC)This seems wise.
The contaminated snow piles are usually melted by mid june.
But...don't the contaminants still make their way to the ocean, just six months later? (We've been discussing it over on the LJ version of this post, and can't figure out why it's okay as runoff and not as...pushoff. Or whatever the term would be.)