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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 2, 2012 15:51:18 GMT 12.75
Drove over to see the Great Salt Lake today and toured Antelope Island...it was beautiful, but seriously...what the heck is up with that smell???
That lake smells like an open sewer, it was horrible!!!
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Post by Two Tales on Jun 3, 2012 6:19:31 GMT 12.75
Toby, just 1/3 of the lake smells like that the rest of it smells much better ....the amount of salt in the half that stinks is enormus...nothig will live or grow in it..not even the normal water bourn bactiria found in brakish pits..so in a way that half is a sewer...for the other half and all the run off from the surrounding areas...one of the education channels just did a program on it...
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 3, 2012 6:46:24 GMT 12.75
I was completely unprepared for that...I thought the sewers from the surrounding communities must have been being dumped into the lake. Once I got to the Island (7 miles into the lake via causeway) there was no odor at all and it was absolutely beautiful!
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Post by brittonfaith on Jun 3, 2012 18:56:44 GMT 12.75
Haven't ever been there, so I don't know what it's smelling like. Sounds like Jackson, OH though. I swear every time I get out of the truck I smell a huge hog farm. Could even pin the particular odor down to Hampshires. I keep asking everyone I see where the hog smell is coming from. They keep saying it's this one factory clear across town. Dunno. But it sure do stink to high heaven.
But what TT said about the salt causing the stink....Hmmm. Jackson's odor could be coming from Salt Lick Creek. I know way back in the early settlement days it was used as a salt mine.
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Post by Paws on Jun 4, 2012 2:16:48 GMT 12.75
That sounds like a paper mill Faith. I do not know about Salt Lake. Let me google it....... (brb)........Found it! "In one of their bright moves as Utah government it was decided long ago that raw sewage should be dumped into the great Salt Lake as this water is not used for drinking water and nothing can live in it. Their move has since effected the residents. Sometimes it is confusing and you go around your house looking for the source of the smell until you open a door and realize it is even more pugnant outside." We are here to serve.......
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 4, 2012 9:58:03 GMT 12.75
Exactly the smell too! Seen folks wading in it... Not me brudder!
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Post by Paws on Jun 4, 2012 13:24:06 GMT 12.75
NOTHING CAN LIVE IN IT??? If nothing can live in it then there are no bacteria, therefore there is no smell. It's a festering cess pool!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 4, 2012 17:51:55 GMT 12.75
Thay harvest brine shrimp out of there to be sold as fish n pet food in pet stores, so obviously something lives in it...other than bacteria.
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Post by Paws on Jun 5, 2012 2:00:43 GMT 12.75
Well then the shit sludge is just good food for the sea monkeys. It's an eco-system! LOL!! ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 5, 2012 18:29:00 GMT 12.75
I went back to the island today and got some amazing photos and met up with some really nice folks from New Zealand....Kiwis are very humble and polite folks! The wind was in my favor going across the causeway and all I smelled was salty air... Leaving this evening, the wind shifted and really picked up speed. The stench was horrible and the "white caps" were actually "BROWN caps" on the waves...NASTY sludge; what a horrificaly polluted place!!!!
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