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If I wanted to fall under that reporting limit, can I just dilute my wastewater a bit more?
by Waterluvian 5mo ago
If I wanted to fall under that reporting limit, can I just dilute my wastewater a bit more?
- cwal37 5mo agoThe classic pre-EPA slogan comes to mind: "the solution to pollution is dilution".
- munk-a 5mo agoThe dosage makes the poison - but if it sticks around in the body dilution may slightly alleviate effects but at the cost of more widespread buildup. This is out of my field so I'm not certain if that's a concern here.
- Terr_ 5mo agoIn some cases it still is, but we need to emphasize the exceptions, which can be rather serious. For example, we can hardly "dilute" CFCs or CO2 any more than we did, by putting them into a whopping 5.15×10^18 kg of the entire atmosphere of the Earth. Yet both still cause bad things, because there's no (sufficient) process to break them down or move them to a safe state.
- Zigurd 5mo agoAccumulation makes the... what rhymes here?
- Terr_ 5mo agoI like where you're going with this. "The solution to pollution is dilution, except when accumulation is a violation upon creation"?
- imron 5mo agoLitigation
- Wrongful8276 5mo agoThe complication of this realization is bio-accumulation
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- MisterTea 5mo agoThat is how car manufacturers worked around the old tail pipe emission laws. They added air pumps plumbed to the exhaust manifold(s) to increase the exhaust mass diluting the stream enough to pass emissions tests. Problem solved!
- SoftTalker 5mo agoIs that what a "smog pump" is (was)? LOL. I had heard the term but never knew what it was. Along the same lines then as other emissions equipment that reduced fuel economy but achieved the ppm criteria in the exhaust. Yes, let's address pollution by burning more fuel.
- CamperBob2 5mo agoYes, and it has absolutely nothing to do with increasing air volume. The idea is to lower hydrocarbon emissions by burning them off in the exhaust manifold.
- MisterTea 5mo agoDepends on the vehicle. Again, I was in a medium duty truck where this system was used.
- CamperBob2 5mo agoNo, it does not "depend on the vehicle." Stop spreading bullshit. Failing that, do it elsewhere.
- cucumber3732842 5mo ago>That is how car manufacturers worked around the old tail pipe emission laws. They added air pumps plumbed to the exhaust manifold(s) to increase the exhaust mass diluting the stream enough to pass emissions tests. Problem solved! I'm sure that people of a certain bent will eat your comment up but that's just not true. Air pumps were for catalyst efficiency. The old ones needed extra oxygen molecules floating around for the big stuff (hydrocarbons) to oxidize with until the catalyst was up to operating temp and working at peak-ish efficiency. Emissions have been measured by mass rather than concentration since 1972. So like yeah it "could've been done" but standards before that were light enough that they could just screw with other things that add $0 to the BOM to clean it up enough to pass.
- IshKebab 5mo agoPresumably. But they are also limited on the volume of wastewater they are allowed to discharge, so it probably wouldn't be an ideal "solution".
- phkahler 5mo ago>> If I wanted to fall under that reporting limit, can I just dilute my wastewater a bit more? It said the permit is for up to a certain amount of water per day. If you're at the volume limit there's no way to dilute by just adding more water.
- sandworm101 5mo agoUnless you run it along a ditch so much of the water, and bad stuff, soaks into the soil before "discharge" at the property line.
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- Aurornis 5mo agoThat level of arsenic is so low that diluting it with groundwater might cause the arsenic number to go up, depending on where this is located.
- AngryData 5mo agoYeah but the volume of water you can release is still limited so does still reduce pollutants if you are running up against that limit.
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