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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?
by 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 agoMaybe 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 agoThink 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 agoplenty 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.