So add 1 liter distelled.
I know of a similar situation. Frederick has a water treatment plant
the dumps the effluent into the Monocacy river. The county wants to
build a trash incinerator nearby and use the effluent for cooling water.
The fly in the ointment is that the water concentrates to 1/5th the
original volume and would no longer meet pollution regs. The county's
solution is to pipe water up from the Potomac river (where there is
still capacity for withdrawing water) and dilute the waste water to meet
the regs. Turns out this is a rather old fashioned way to meet the regs
and is no longer practiced if not outright banned.
But... the water was ok to discharge before the concentrated it... all
they are doing is concentrating it, then diluting it again before
discharge. I can't say why they can't just use the Potomac river water
for cooling, but perhaps that would also be too concentrated after use,
lol. The Potomac is probably a lot better than the Hudson, but its not
drinking water either.
Somehow the regs makes sense, but they don't make sense. No matter what
the source of the pollutants, it is still the same pollution no matter
how much water is involved because that water is very small compared to
the body of water it is going into.
On the other hand, I am told that most of the major rivers in the
greater area have PCB levels high enough that it is not recommended for
you to eat the fish on a regular basis. We will not be able to eat
anything wild if we continue to pollute the way we do now.
