Thanks for the link to the treatment plant upgrade. I toured the plant 2 years ago and plan on stopping in again in the next couple of weeks to see what was accomplished.
Regards,
Bob
Thanks for the link to the treatment plant upgrade. I toured the plant 2 years ago and plan on stopping in again in the next couple of weeks to see what was accomplished.
Regards,
Bob
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Since I stay where the brown water reaches when it does appear, I'm well aware that visitors are put off by this. I try to explain that it's OK & offer the idea that they think of it like tea - colored water - not dirty water. That doesn't always work or help much. What helps even less is that the Jamaicans are yelling at people to get out of the water because it is no good. Of course, visitors believe them over me since they live there & would know. (Got that response many times.) I probably won't give up trying to educate but once people get an idea in their head, it's not easy to change their thinking.
Most Rivers that flow out of swamp or bottom land such as the moras is called black water...It is from the leaf decay and the tanic acid that NATURE puts into the water...Hince the Black River....if you have ever seen the rivers that flow out of coastal Georgia most of them are "black' water. It is a natural event and is not from sewage or human waste...It is the in thing right now to blame humans for every event on earth but it is not the case in the Negril or Black rivers.....Those rivers ran black when the Arwarks fished them....
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"It is from the leaf decay and the tanic acid that NATURE puts into the water..."
I explain that the discoloration comes from the leaves, the tanic acid, thus the tea analogy. It doesn't matter.
On Jamaica's reefs, it is a GOOD thing when all that 'sea weed' gets deposited on the beach, especially if it is removed so that it cannot re-enter the sea. 'Sea weed' that is growing on the reefs shades out the corals. When it is removed, it allows coral larvae the space it needs to attach and grow. The efforts that were made to removed the plants from the shoreline eliminates the possibility of the plants washing back into the ocean, where they would otherwise deteriorate and break down to their constituent elements of phosphorus and nitrogen -- only to become fertilizer for the next generation of 'sea weed'. BIG UP to all those who removed the plants from the seashore!!!
On the seaweed topic... I always thought it was not a good idea to bury it. After seeing the pics after Sandy came through I did some research. Seaweed from many FL beaches is either carted away (not that feasible in JA) or buried. For numerous reasons there is more seaweed this year in the FL & Caribbean area. Getting it out of the water IS a good thing. Burying it is fine.
Important & informative thread. Thanks to all who've contributed &, of course, Rob for addressing the issues.
to me jungle or tropical ground water run off is not "Black" water, "brackish" yes...........animal-human waste run-off, now THATS "Black Water".
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Re: To stop some of the unfounded rumors...
to me jungle or tropical ground water run off is not "Black" water, "brackish" yes
Brackish and black water are not the same...Brackish water is both salt and fresh water and may or may not be brown (black water)...I have been way up the Black River to where it is totally un-salted and it is still "Black water" but not brackish as it is past where the inland tide reaches it. Black water is what some of us that have lived in the swamp or close to it call it. I lived inland in Savannah way past any salt or brackish water and our river flowed from the Ogichee
swamp. We lived on the Little Ogichee River and it was exactly the same color as the negril River and Black River in Jamaica. Totally "clean' but stained. We were at least 25 miles from the sea and no salt water at all...Black water is merely a term we used but like Yvonne said will look like tea or evern darker....It is natural color from the tanic acid in the leaves. This is where the color in the Negril River comes from and not from your use of the term black Water...
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As someone who works in the wastewater field, I can unequivocally state that ground water run-off has a much higher fecal coliform content than I would be willing to injest. Of course the more paved surface, the greater the problem as the soil doesn't have a chance to filter the water.
Regards,
Bob
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