Dredging now prohibited in California!

[goldsworthy]

I found this news story from California http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32343434/ns/us_news-environment/

 

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[jeff of pa]

I Think they should put a Halt
to this until an Enviromental
Damage study is done

 

[goldsworthy]

I guess now we have to get our gold the old fashioned way! (BUY IT AT THE STORE)

 

[jeff of pa]

I think We gotta become a "Special interest group"

start crying & Whining like they do

 

[Jeffro]

"Besides altering the shape of the river and stirring up silt, there is evidence dredging can release toxic mercury locked in the riverbed, which can harm young salmon and lamprey, a jawless eel-like fish that is food for salmon as well as the Karuk, scientists say."



OMG! We should also put a stop to the spring thaw then! Friggin Mother Nature screwing with the rivers like that......



Dredges remove mercury, by the way- geniuses! :P

 

[kuger]

"Besides altering the shape of the river and stirring up silt, there is evidence dredging can release toxic mercury locked in the riverbed, which can harm young salmon and lamprey, a jawless eel-like fish that is food for salmon as well as the Karuk, scientists say."



OMG! We should also put a stop to the spring thaw then! Friggin Mother Nature screwing with the rivers like that......



Dredges remove mercury, by the way- geniuses! :P

AMEN!!!!!!

 

[beaks]

here is a link to a good site http://goldbedrockgold.blogspot.com/2009/08/suction-dredging-halted-in-california.html