WBAL-TV 11 reports that researchers found amphetamines, opioids and morphine in the water, and that kind of pollution is having an impact on the aquatic food chain.
Most people wonder how drugs get into streams. Scientists believe the root of the problem is Baltimore's failing sewage system.
The water at Gwynns Run at Carroll Park is contaminated with caffeine, amphetamines, opioids and morphine. Scientists working with the Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies sampled six streams in the Gwynns Falls and Oregon Ridge Watersheds.
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I wonder what they would find in the bay.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the Wicomico isn't much better!
ReplyDeletemeanwhile we pay a tax on our septic systems so they can improve their waste facilities, wonder how that's working out!
ReplyDeleteI know this area well. The Falls are along the Western Cemetery in Baltimore City where 100's of Romani (gypsies) have been buried for generations including murdered in 1994 Romani matriarch Deborah Stevens. We visit regularly. Could be a failing sewage system but could also be property owners along the Falls, including the overseers of the cemetery don't maintain retaining walls. A few years ago big mud slide from the cemetery retaining wall failure caused tons of mud to go into the Falls. Fight over who should maintain the wall arose.
ReplyDeleteMost major cities have failing infrastructures and this is nothing new/exciting. Each year WBAL, WMAR, WJZ have a story about this. Move along, nothing to see here. Libs stop giving handouts, people need to become citizens again.
ReplyDeleteAw hell, woke up from another dream again!
Sad.
There is so much water that everything is very diluted. This is just another way to blame something on physicians. Yep, people are getting high because drugs are in the water. Not Hardly Morons!
ReplyDeleteThose same researchers that found the drugs in the stream, should spend some of their research money to find a way to extract those very same drugs that they can "find" and have some real results. Finding a problem is easy. Finding a solution is the hard work.
ReplyDeleteAmerica is being destroyed "within "
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