"John Ward"
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jrmward@tpg.com.au
Posted on:
Nov 20, 2007, 9:05 AM
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Hi Mate,
My very best effort, mate,
"MikeW" <MikeW@spammenot.con> wrote in message
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> Slap wrote:
>>
>> Well all our sewage goes through a water treatment plant before being
>> dumped in our river. There is the odd time, say a ten year rain,
>> when the sewer system will hit the overflow and go untreated but when
>> that happens all hell breaks loose and much work is done to stop it
>> from happening again.
>
> Right!
>
> I am a very keen angler (match fisherman) and used to spend many hours on
> my local river. If it rained heavily for a couple of days, and the river
> rose a few feet, you could forget about catching fish until the river
> levels receded.
>
> What you would 'catch' however, (snagged on your line) is all sorts of
> effluent, such as toilet tissue, condoms and other nasties. This happens
> on a regular basis, three of four times a year, so you can see I have no
> faith whatsoever, in sewage plants removing pollutants, and other
> 'nasties' from the water before dumping it back into the rivers.
>
> Needless to say, I don't now fish the river when levels are high. 
> --
> MikeW
> The difference between flight attendants and jet engines, is that the
> engine usually quits whining when it gets to the gate!
>
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