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Erwtensoep is called pea soup in English. Actually this canal used to be a stinking city sewer and was less murky green than fecal brown for most of its 2000 y
by morphle 2y ago
Erwtensoep is called pea soup in English.
Actually this canal used to be a stinking city sewer and was less murky green than fecal brown for most of its 2000 year existence.
The fish came back when the sewage was removed in the last 35 years. The green color is from the healthy algal soup.
The stench in the summer was so bad that for hundreds of years the rich build beautiful country houses and castles in the woods east of the town.
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- MrMcCall 2y agoLet's hope we don't see any 'brown trout' in there :-) Seriously, though, I love a nice green algae for some good old oxygen. I just saw some all along the shore of a small tributary at a local park that had tons of little (but not tiny) bubbles all over it. I thought it might be oxygen. Such a lovely florescent lime green.
- morphle 2y ago>tons of little (but not tiny) bubbles >Such a lovely florescent lime green Quite probably oxygen from the plants and not methane bubbles. >small tributary at a local park Quite probably where I was a boy scout and had my first kiss