Polluted river fish exchange

Todays paper had an article that the industires that polluted the Passaic River in New Jersey [and this was alot of pollution like the Diamond- Shamrock chemical company that made agent orange amoung others], said instead of them paying to clean up the river they will exchange any fish caught for a clean fish. Just catch a chemical laced fish and go turn it in for a new one. Yeah that should be fine.That'll work.

Like carbon credits, or wetlands exchanges.

It all makes perfect sense doesn't it?

Paul

Sometimes it's better not to stir things up.

Yes like the bottom four inches of the Hudson from Schenectady down. PCB's

That's one of the areas I was thinking of.

do the new ones come from china?

Diamond Shamrock is a competitor of the company that I work for. We have a wash down water reuse system where it all goes into a tank and is tested for concentration of various chemicals, then used as water in a batch the next day with slight adjustment to the raw materials.

Surely you don't suggest a corporation should dig into its own pockets to clean up its own mess? That's un-American!

Actually,that would be the Mohawk, but I know what you mean, Fort Edward Dam, to the Federal Dam in Troy, the dregding operation is now a few years in.

Years ago, the Hudson was a filthy sewage contaminated high turbidity river. I have fished in it many years later, water was clear, and things were a lot different, but that sediment layer of PCB's released by the idiots at GE, when they broke up that dam in error back in the 70's, well GE has been made accountable for it, still not sure how well this clean up is working, thinking about what has to occur, always see jobs for long/odd shifts advertised.

Shame, because this river was a great source of fish, I would not eat a one out of that river, especially when I can go to a unmolested fresh water reservoir a few miles away and know nothing has been dumped into it, being a municipal water supply, its perimeters are protected and are mostly forest.

I worked for a site contractor in Passaic NJ, briefly, definitely a heavy industrial area, can't imagine whats gone into that river over time, I would not give too much praise to that area either, the job sucked too, worst maintained junk I ever ran, well except my own junk LOL !!!!

Green is the new red.