Zebs Dying by the millions.

Interesting article in today’s Pioneer Press.

http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/167454.htm

J

DIE!! Zebes DIE!!

there… maybe that will get a few more!!

in anycase…. good riddance!… hopefully it will lead to more than just a short reprieve…..

Jon,

Glad ya threw this out there today, read it earlier myself. So do we see less zebies around the discharge area of the power plant?

Should they maybe discharge this water when its warmer instead of cooling it first?

Food for thought.

Hook

Good question what is the Law anyway? Anyone have a brief on it? Hmmm questions…….I guess Internet has some power after all? naa. Make a case on paper and then it’s procedures for anyone short or tall, maybe a young attorney wishing to make a name for them, there still is something to having a name and a cause. Before you have a heart attack there may be no violations, just a question. I vote for all water quality issues/violations to be strictly followed. Lord knows something as secondary as fishing with two lines won’t go unnoticed by the state – when was the last time the MNDNR gave you a warning? They should get ya on two lines in your moment of weakness. It’s human to error.

This issue of warm or cold water likely isn’t a large issue, I don’t know, my main goal is drinkable well water, edible fish, and continuance toward a healthy Mississippi River. All costs must be recorded.

Keep catchin’

Turk

Edited by Turk on 10/25/01 12:11 PM.

Here’s other ?’s the DNR will have to consider.

Are the zeb’s dieing do to over heating or are they dieing off do to colder water temps last winter? If you look at it. The power plant was off line for most of the year. If you look at the study they did on lake Zumbro in how they lowered the water level to kill off the mussel. And how long have the mussels been taken to reach the area that they deposited into. So maybe it wasn’t the heat but a the colder water and it took them a while to deposit or a long term illness from the colder water temps to die off. So if you look at the water temps from years before when the plant was running the zeb’s had actually been stronger. Or from other studies the mussel has in its self been strong but could have hit its high point and is running out of food. So it maybe not just be the warmer water temps.

Jigger2001

Very interesting point!

Considering how the Croix freezes over every winter, that may account for the fact the Zebs have not taken a strong hold there…. Don’t know.

Bottom line is Mother Nature ends up regulating it’s self.

J.