Re: Perchlorate Behavior in a Municipal Lake Following Fireworks

On May 29, 6:25 pm, "hhc...@xxxxxxxxx" <hhc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I ran across this today or Norleif's site (http://pyrotechnics.no-
ip.org/files/) posted under the name of Richard T. Wilkin? and I
believe it to be something that everyone in the newsgroup should read,
review and perhaps comment on. It might be a basis for newsgroup
discussion.

The post itself is a .pdf format, fine print file of about 6 pages in
length with a great number of literature citations. I printed it out,
but not having a chance to read it in depth yet, I will assure you
that it it is not a trivial post frrom one of our many crackpots, but
seems more like the style of real scientific paper. Print it out, and
go through it with a hilighter.

It was posted as an advance copy, suggesting that the poster would
like to receive comments. Unfortunately, the poster did not post an
email address on the newsgroup. Hope he will, not that the readers of
the newsgroup will have much comment.

Actually, as somewhat of an environmentalist, I realize that
perchlorates are environmentally hostile, but I am not entirely
convinced that the amounts of perchlorates contained in fireworks are
a significant environmental threat. There are far too many other
perchorate sources that, in comparison, make the fireworks contained
in perchlorates nearly insignificant. There are far too many
perchlorlate sources that permeate our environment. Still, this paper
seems to demonstrate that someone is evaluating the perchlorate
containination that fireworks present.

Since the OP knew about Norleif's site, I'd assume that he would also
post on this newsgroup if he is receptive to the recept of positive or
negative comments.

Harry C.

Harry, it' interesting that Mr. Wilkins (of the US Environmental
Protection Agencey) hired the Shaw Group (yep, the Fortune 500 company
who made its "fortune" in Govt. cleanup contracts for the biggest pork
boondoggles in "waste management" and environmental cleanup at
taxpayers expense. These guys are all over the globe including
Bahrain where their other big business (supplying "expertise",
chemicals and 21,000 employees capable of handling any environmental
"emergency" their marketing people can devise. They got pissed when
they weren't chosen for a California waste remediation proposal:
http://www.gao.gov/decisions/bidpro/297294.pdf

I smell a big perchlorate rat.


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