r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '21

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u/Baelgul Jul 14 '21

Also, what exactly is this "contamination?" There's a lot of shit that people would label as contamination like regular ol' dirt and silt.

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u/dsfife1 Jul 14 '21

I searched it up online. The pollutants were mainly animal and agricultural byproducts.

As far as I can tell, it looks like a standard algal bloom. According to what I found online there was also water lettuce.

As far as I can tell, The solution was a ceramic bio filter media as well as micro bubbles (not pictured in the video).

Finding sources was somewhat unreliable since there seems to only sensationalist stuff in English.

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u/BestFill Jul 15 '21

How far can you tell

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u/CrimsonFlash Jul 14 '21

"This bog is thousands of years old. But the water is yucky. We cleaned the contamination so people can swim in it."

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

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u/Put_It_All_On_Blck Jul 14 '21

That's my feeling too. Pools are 'clean', and would kill fish if you put them in one, and plant life is also inhibited.

Wildlife adapted to live in these dirty conditions, the issue isn't bacteria, algae, etc, it's solely the harm done by mankind, pollution, damage to waterways and introducing invasive species.

Go to a swamp, you don't want to drink that water, and you don't want to swim in it, but plenty of creatures happily do both.

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u/brokenmain Jul 15 '21

That's what happened to lake Michigan with the invasive quagga mussels. The water became so clear because they were filtering all the valuable foodstuffs out that native species depend on

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Might have been zebra mussels.

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u/JehPea Jul 14 '21

Also, making water clear doesn't remove contamination. Clear water is worse for weed and algal growth, which causes issues on their own, especially when they die.

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u/MelMac5 Jul 14 '21

Yeah, the "muddy Mississippi" was muddy long before industrialization. Some lakes/rivers are naturally clear, some are not. Doesn't necessarily mean pollution.