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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Aug 14, 2024 9:46:18 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Aug 14, 2024 11:14:54 GMT -5
Wow! I guess we better avoid drinking any sewage.  lol |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Aug 14, 2024 12:29:22 GMT -5
They use wastewater as a tool to measure the virus concentration in an area. It's simpler to sample water at a wastewater collection site than taking several thousand air samples distributed around the same area. It gives you an idea of areas where the disease concentration is higher.
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Post by BHU on Aug 14, 2024 15:00:58 GMT -5
Wow! I guess we better avoid drinking any sewage. lol I guess we won't be swimming in the Mohawk River anytime soon!  |
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Post by BHU on Aug 14, 2024 15:02:15 GMT -5
They use wastewater as a tool to measure the virus concentration in an area. It's simpler to sample water at a wastewater collection site than taking several thousand air samples distributed around the same area. It gives you an idea of areas where the disease concentration is higher. Can't they just do it in the Mohawk River? LOL! |
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Post by Clipper on Aug 14, 2024 15:37:51 GMT -5
They use wastewater as a tool to measure the virus concentration in an area. It's simpler to sample water at a wastewater collection site than taking several thousand air samples distributed around the same area. It gives you an idea of areas where the disease concentration is higher. i read up on the subject when it first was hitting the news. Makes perfect sense. i also understand that it can be broken down by the area of the locality where the sewage originates by sampling at the main before it dumps into the system. |
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Post by Clipper on Aug 14, 2024 15:47:12 GMT -5
Wow! I guess we better avoid drinking any sewage. lol I guess we won't be swimming in the Mohawk River anytime soon! When I lived in Point Rock we swam in the Mohawk plenty of times. The kids loved to play under the falls and wade in the river looking for crawfish. Once the river passes Chestnut St bridge I would not even stick a foot in the Mohawk. |
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Post by Clipper on Aug 14, 2024 15:48:30 GMT -5
They use wastewater as a tool to measure the virus concentration in an area. It's simpler to sample water at a wastewater collection site than taking several thousand air samples distributed around the same area. It gives you an idea of areas where the disease concentration is higher. Can't they just do it in the Mohawk River? LOL! If they were to sample the river in Utica they would have to install a turd filter to get a sample with all the overflow problems that dump raw sewage into the river. |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Aug 15, 2024 8:52:29 GMT -5
Once Harbor Point is up and running with businesses and recreational activities plus apartments people there can go swimming and boating in the Mohawk River and even pack a picnic lunch and go to the beautiful banks of the Mohawk River enjoying the view as they eat.
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Post by Clipper on Aug 15, 2024 9:09:18 GMT -5
The river has certainly lost SOME of it's horrific reputation as a cesspool but it's far from pristine and pure. I have fished in both the river and the canal and many people will eat those fish but I am not one of those people. Swimming? I don't see the Utica harbor being clean enough in MY lifetime for me to want to swim in it or get any of that water in my mouth. I have seen kids swimming in it near the S. Washington St bridge in Herkimer and when I was a teen we used to ride our bikes to Barnes Ave and jump off the Barnes Avenue RR Bridge into the canal and swim. Yuk! The river and canal were much more polluted in those days.
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Post by BHU on Aug 15, 2024 13:20:06 GMT -5
If you go west near locks 21 & 22 on the canal the water is very clean. I fished the canal at Bellamy Park in Rome but I wouldn't eat any fish from there.
A few years ago the harbor was dredged in a huge project by NG. I believe it was also capped with a clay liner but I wouldn't swim or eat fish out of there.
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Post by BHU on Aug 15, 2024 13:22:15 GMT -5
Is there a booster for this new varient? I'm hearing that it's highly contagious. |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Aug 15, 2024 16:34:35 GMT -5
The river has certainly lost SOME of it's horrific reputation as a cesspool but it's far from pristine and pure. I have fished in both the river and the canal and many people will eat those fish but I am not one of those people. Swimming? I don't see the Utica harbor being clean enough in MY lifetime for me to want to swim in it or get any of that water in my mouth. I have seen kids swimming in it near the S. Washington St bridge in Herkimer and when I was a teen we used to ride our bikes to Barnes Ave and jump off the Barnes Avenue RR Bridge into the canal and swim. Yuk! The river and canal were much more polluted in those days. I agree. I can only imagine the genetic abnormalities created by household of child bearing tennants. I get the alerts from the water treatment plant whenever it rains and that place still cannot handle the amount of water entering the sewers ets so dumping of untreated waste happens and we are talking tons of waste per minute!!! That is disgusting. When I go over the river with the Bus I can see on some rainy days turds floating by on there way to New York City. A gracious gift from upstate! |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Aug 15, 2024 16:35:20 GMT -5
Is there a booster for this new varient? I'm hearing that it's highly contagious. I read it is coming out this fall. |
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Post by BHU on Aug 15, 2024 22:23:34 GMT -5
Well, I have Covid. I started feeling lousy late this afternoon with a slight headache, cough, slight aches & a general feeling of malaise. No fever. I tested positive with a home test kit. I'll test myself again tomorrow but I'm pretty sure that I have it. I have no idea how I caught it but it could be anywhere considering this new varient is highly contagious.
We were supposed to go to friend's camp Saturday for a few hours. So much for that idea.
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lol
