re: NOLA S&WB Thought About Pumping Sewage into Miss. River due to Sewer Concerns

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I agree, but it's better to go in a river with a volume at between 700,000 and 1,000,000 cfs than run through the streets of a densely populated city

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But to be fair, you didn't say "better," you said "no problem":

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As much of a clownshow as SWB is, I'd rather have sewage in the river than in the streets, so I don't see the problem here.

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If we're getting to this point where this decision is considered, yeah I see a problem.

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But to be fair, you didn't say "better," you said "no problem":

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I said I had no problem with deciding to discharge into the river rather than letting raw sewage flow through the streets. Context is important here.

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If we're getting to this point where this decision is considered, yeah I see a problem.

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Once again, you're not understanding what I said.

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Would you really even notice the raw sewage in the streets of New Orleans?

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Legit question

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Would you really even notice the raw sewage in the streets of New Orleans?

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Does a poop on the sidewalk count?

In all seriousness, I have tasted recently a pasta dish in the Quarter that had the flavor/smell of a RV grey-water tank. Literally inedible. Any explanation of this from a NOLA foodie?

Most food in NO sucks. Just my honest opinion. You have to look for the diamonds in the rough.

While this is not good... there's a lot of nasty stuff in that river, that comes from all the farms and industries upstream. Some poo isn't nearly as bad as some of those chemicals and fertilizers.

This is why all the water intakes actually purify the water.

So boil advisory?

Yeah I don't really know what everybody is freaking out about. Do y'all have any idea how polluted the Mississippi River is already? Your beef should be with all the farmers in the Midwest. Raw sewage might get you sick but the long-term effects of chemical pollution, like glyphosate, is far worse. Its the reason Louisiana is cancer alley and if you look at the map, it's concentrated around the Mississippi River. Indians, dots not feathers, swim in raw sewage all the time. Somehow their long-term health is way better than ours if you allow for their terrible medical care.

Rivers are the sewers of the planet. Stop acting like they are supposed to be some pristine source of Heaven.

Aren’t there very successful marsh restoration projects that use minimally filtered sewerage?

Of all the NOLA gonna NOLA things, pumping sewerage into the river to avoid dumping it on land (where it would be washed into storm drains then into the lake) seems like good decision making.