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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Cause ....
.... Effect.

Remember my post on Love Canal California style?

This was in the same paper this morning:
Although use of highly toxic chemicals went down, the overall amount of agricultural pesticides skyrocketed from 180 million pounds in 2004 to 194 million pounds in 2005. That means statewide use was up by 14 million pounds in 2005, with Tulare County pitching in with 2.5 million extra pounds — going from 15 million pounds in 2004 to 17.5 million pounds in 2005.

It also means that Tulare County is the No. 3 county in the state in the amount of pesticides used. Only Fresno County, which topped the list with more than 32 millions pounds, and Kern County, which came in second with more than 28 million pounds, used more pesticides.
All three county's are in the Central Valley of California. How nice that "highly toxic" chemical use went down. So what chemical components are in the "other" chemicals used as fertilizers? Last I looked, nitrates were not considered "toxic".

Gee. I wonder why they're closing water wells due to nitrate pollution?
Written at 8:50 AM by Greyhair.
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1 Comments:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Nitrate doesn't show toxicity (in your life time) up till level of about 50 mg/L. That's usually the maximum ammount of NO3- allowed in drinking water... At least here in Slovenia.

But, you have to wonder, if nitrates get into your wells, what else comes with them?
11:56 AM  
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