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No rain means no runoff pollution

Published 06/11/08

The South River's health looked much better than last year, according to the fourth annual South River Snapshot taken by volunteers.

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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.... - June 11, 2008

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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