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Nobody wants to buy the sludge. Putting it back would kill ocean life in the area.

• umvi 7y ago
  Just dump it in the great salt lake then
  • brokensegue 7y ago
    uhm, trucking this sludge all the way to Utah seems pretty pointless. Why not just put it in a dump? Why does it need to be put into water?
    • LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
      Maybe to avoid build up of toxic dust like around the drying up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea ? https://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-salton-sea-20151001-story.html https://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-salton-sea-20151001-st... Edit: To put it more generally: To avoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth
    • pixl97 7y ago
      Think of brine as industrial pollution. It wont stay in a dump, it will leak out and poison an area for tens of thousands of years.
      • brokensegue 7y ago
        plenty of industrial pollutants are put into dumps/buried? what do you think we do with them? From wikipedia > Other methods [of disposing of brine] include drying in evaporation ponds, injecting to deep wells, and storing and reusing the brine for irrigation, de-icing or dust control purposes.