The likely difference? Rain and runoff.
Without rain flushing pollutants into the river, test results looked pretty good.
The snapshot measures conditions across the watershed in a two-hour period. Last year's snapshot, taken after significant rainfall, showed high levels of pollutants across the watershed. This year, when there had been no rain for about a week before the April snapshot, those markers were near normal.
"With no rain we found baseline conditions,"...
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So if.... - 2008-06-11 19:49:00
If we have Global Warming IE less rain then the river will be saved?
Oh wait, it's now 'Climate Change'.
But I KNOW that it rained LOTS more this Spring but the river is healthier because these folks say there was LESS rain? Where does this off the wall data come from?
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