The first photo below that was taken yesterday shows the discharge point for the pulp mill in Halsey Oregon (about 25 miles upstream of Corvallis). They are taking steps starting tomorrow to fix the situation. We threatened to sue the mill for the same problem last year. This brings up the rhetorical question - is this really a part of the river where an 11 million gallon discharge should be in the first place? The dark is mostly tannins, and there is likely excess heat. The second photo shows the area behind the discharge point where they will reconstruct a channel they built last year (in the middle of the shot), to bring more flow to their water intake, and to disperse the discharge with the additional flow. The river moves a lot in this area, and the higher flows totally reworked and closed down the constructed channel. As I paddled yesterday, I could see the suspended solids in the river far below where the initial dark plume is. The size of the initial plume violates the Clean Water Act. They are allowed to have what is called a mixing zone but not one this big. Hmm, mixing zones, where have we heard this before?
Posted on: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:47:41 +0000
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