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In short: restore tributaries to create pockets of biodiversity, even if the main river is subjected to toxic event. They create suitable breeding grounds by u

In short: restore tributaries to create pockets of biodiversity, even if the main river is subjected to toxic event. They create suitable breeding grounds by undoing previous canalization work, and restore the riverbed by adding gravel. Of course, the video contains more details and images.

SillyUsername 3y ago
Unfortunately how long will it be before the guilty companies, who won't fix their dumping problem, realise they need to offload an even higher capacity into a clean river which is now coping well? Helpfully there's now a nearby tributary allowing a shorter pipe...
- Cymrukicks 3y ago
  Its clearly a breakdown of politics and the law that they can get away with this scot free globally. How soon before these companies are just attacked by mobs as restitution pollution of an area is in itself a form of violence one that goes seemingly unpunished.
specialist 3y ago
I'm in awe. For me, bioremediation is sci-fi made real. It was all hypothetical back in the 90s. (I was volunteering at an org trying to save PNW salmon from extinction.) Developers were being allowed to pave critical habitat in exchange for creating "wetlands" somewhere else. But no one knew how to do that. And many were skeptical it could even be done. > restore the riverbed by adding gravel https://youtu.be/ZgItGjKu4mQ?t=415 https://youtu.be/ZgItGjKu4mQ?t=415 So important. Same info pulled from the accompanying article https://planetwild.com/blog/how-were-reviving-a-poisoned-river https://planetwild.com/blog/how-were-reviving-a-poisoned-riv... "By filling up the river bed with a specific kind of gravel, multiple things happen... [ new breeding grounds, water cleansing, oxygenation, natural overflow, new habitats]" One tidbit I learned about PNW salmon is that all the varieties need very specific conditions, like the kind of gravel, to successfully reproduce. It's makes me so frikkin happy to learn that people are now routinely doing stuff we only dreamed about just a few decades ago.

SillyUsername 3y ago

Unfortunately how long will it be before the guilty companies, who won't fix their dumping problem, realise they need to offload an even higher capacity into a clean river which is now coping well? Helpfully there's now a nearby tributary allowing a shorter pipe...

Cymrukicks 3y ago
Its clearly a breakdown of politics and the law that they can get away with this scot free globally. How soon before these companies are just attacked by mobs as restitution pollution of an area is in itself a form of violence one that goes seemingly unpunished.

specialist 3y ago

I'm in awe. For me, bioremediation is sci-fi made real. It was all hypothetical back in the 90s. (I was volunteering at an org trying to save PNW salmon from extinction.) Developers were being allowed to pave critical habitat in exchange for creating "wetlands" somewhere else. But no one knew how to do that. And many were skeptical it could even be done. > restore the riverbed by adding gravel https://youtu.be/ZgItGjKu4mQ?t=415 https://youtu.be/ZgItGjKu4mQ?t=415 So important. Same info pulled from the accompanying article https://planetwild.com/blog/how-were-reviving-a-poisoned-river https://planetwild.com/blog/how-were-reviving-a-poisoned-riv... "By filling up the river bed with a specific kind of gravel, multiple things happen... [ new breeding grounds, water cleansing, oxygenation, natural overflow, new habitats]" One tidbit I learned about PNW salmon is that all the varieties need very specific conditions, like the kind of gravel, to successfully reproduce. It's makes me so frikkin happy to learn that people are now routinely doing stuff we only dreamed about just a few decades ago.