http://www.scienceline.org/2007/08/01/environment-anderson-water_hormones/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:45:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.scienceline.org/2007/08/01/environment-anderson-water_hormones/comment-page-1/#comment-994 Steve Frank Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:42:40 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2007/08/01/environment-anderson-water_hormones/#comment-994 1. The photo depicts a cold water reach of the South Platte that is nothing at all like the warm water reach that David Norris at CU claims is affected. 2. There are other possible reasons for intersex fish, but they don't fit the CU researcher's hypothesis. 3. Septic systems and biosolids are different. You have muddied rather than clarified the issue. 4. This is really old information. Why is it being presented now? 5. The article correctly points out that 99% or these microcontaminants can be removed in effective secondary treatment but completely leaves out the fact that a looming infrastructure problem in the U.S. weith a deficit in the multiple billions of dollars is a much more serious problem now than finding that other one percent of microcontaminants. For example, an efficient secondary wastewater treatment plant for that Massachusetts community mentioned in the article might not only remove most of whatever the researchers are concerned with but immeasurably improve the town's groundwater. 1. The photo depicts a cold water reach of the South Platte that is nothing at all like the warm water reach that David Norris at CU claims is affected.
2. There are other possible reasons for intersex fish, but they don’t fit the CU researcher’s hypothesis.
3. Septic systems and biosolids are different. You have muddied rather than clarified the issue.
4. This is really old information. Why is it being presented now?
5. The article correctly points out that 99% or these microcontaminants can be removed in effective secondary treatment but completely leaves out the fact that a looming infrastructure problem in the U.S. weith a deficit in the multiple billions of dollars is a much more serious problem now than finding that other one percent of microcontaminants. For example, an efficient secondary wastewater treatment plant for that Massachusetts community mentioned in the article might not only remove most of whatever the researchers are concerned with but immeasurably improve the town’s groundwater.

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