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ChristopherBlackwell
Toxic tsunami trash washing ashore
Thu Jun 7, 2012 5:43pm
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We are all connected on this planet though we like to pretend other wises. Now we have a hugh concrete and steel floating dock washing ashore on the Oregon coast with hundreds of millions of foreign and possibly invasive species of life. And this is just the beginning of the trash coming to our shores, and guess what we the taxpayers get to pay for it all, including any ecological damage it brings us. We will get to enjoy this for a long time to come. Want to buy any beach property?
I wonder how much beach front land values will drop? Tune in for future fun and games.


21-meter-long dock found in Oregon is tsunami debris
NATIONAL JUN. 07, 2012 - 01:30AM JST

PORTLAND, Ore —
A nearly 21-meter-long dock that floated ashore on an Oregon beach was torn loose from a fishing port in northern Japan by last year’s tsunami and drifted across thousands of kilometers of Pacific Ocean, a Japanese Consulate official said Wednesday.
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The dock weigh 165 tons…… It’s made of concrete with a metal pontoon and measures 21 meters long, 5.8 meters wide and 2.13 meters high.
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John Chapman, a research scientist at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, said hundreds of millions of other organisms also hitchhiked across the ocean on the dock - some of which are invasive species never before seen on this part of the West Coast.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/dock-found-in-oregon-is-tsunami-debris?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-06-07_AM

  • Does the dock ... — Mondo Fuego™ , Mon Jun 11 3:30pm
    ... glow in the dark? Spent a week on Ft Lauderdale Beach ... amazed that people still leave cigarette butts, bottle caps, plastic bottles, food wrappers and other trash on the beach. These must be... more
  • Plastic Beaches — kw, Thu Jun 7 6:34pm
    I recently saw a tv report on the tons of plastic debris floating in the ocean and washing ashore on the beaches in Hawaii. What a big mess. I suspect it's from the west coasters dumping tons of... more
    • What nation(s) should pay for those fishing boats? — Sprout, Mon Jun 11 7:31am
      How do you plan on raising the money to fund the operation?
      • Gee that is easy,the tax payers again (nm) — ChristopherBlackwell, Tue Jun 12 8:03pm
        • Which nations taxpayers? — Sprout, Wed Jun 13 7:01am
          Or do you envision some sort of international tax?
          • You know the answer to that — ChristopherBlackwell, Wed Jun 13 8:09pm
            Sprout, Since it is going to be our beaches it will be our taxpayers who end up paying. What is bad about is the companies that take part will make huge profits. But this is true in all disasters,... more
            • Huge profits... ROTFLMAO.... — Sprout, Thu Jun 14 5:55am
              Yes, if the TAXPAYER is tasked to fund it, the companies contracted to do the work will profit... But probably not the "huge profits" you are envisioning. I work in gov't contracting. While there are ... more
      • I haven't given it that much thought. — kw, Tue Jun 12 4:51pm
        I don't know why they even bother reporting such things seeing as the people who see the report can't really do much about it. I'm concerned about all that junk out in the ocean; and I figure there... more
    • Your suspicions are wrong... — macsj, Thu Jun 7 8:10pm
      ...The west coast buries, recycles, and burns it's trash. We even take Hawaii's. The east coasts of the rest of the Pacific nations and the west coasts of Central and South America, plus the east... more
      • The report didn't mention whose trash. — kw, Fri Jun 8 11:50am
        I saw another different report about the growing trash problem in China. While the reports were very good about exposing the trash they were not clear about whose trash was being dumped or what... more
        • iYou did, as quoted inside... — macsj, Sat Jun 9 11:10pm
          "from the west coasters dumping tons of waste out in the Pacific" If I said "I suspect the Atlantic trash concentrations are from trash barged out to sea and dumped by the East coasters". Would you... more
          • But I was wrong... — kw, Sun Jun 10 5:14pm
            ...as you pointed out. So the East coast states routinely dump trash in the Atlantic? I don't know who's doing it, as I said the report didn't mention. And I can't clean up such a ecological disaster ... more
            • Sorry, my bad mood. Not your fault. (nm) — macsj, Sun Jun 10 5:35pm
              • Thanks! — kw, Mon Jun 11 5:36am
                I didn't expect an apology, though, and should have kept my suspicion to myself. By use of satellites they could discover and put an end to using the oceans as a garbage dump. Maybe they already have.
              • Had my share of bad moods — ChristopherBlackwell, Sun Jun 10 6:14pm
                macsj, I hope that you come out of it. Bad moods make things harder than need be.
                • macsj must have been ... — Mondo Fuego™ , Mon Jun 11 3:48pm
                  ... eating "Bad Mood Food". LOL I am always in a good mood ... right? :)
  • Trying to prevent invasive species. — ChristopherBlackwell, Thu Jun 7 6:28pm
    Nice to see some action. Now the question will be how effective it will be. However I think it is a good thing to do. Oregon removes seaweed from wrecked dock to guard against 'invasive species'... more
    • Humans are an invasive species. — Ken C, Sat Jun 9 8:51am
      I think humans mess up the environment and cause more extinctions than any other animal does.
      • Probably true — ChristopherBlackwell, Sat Jun 9 6:24pm
        Ken C, We have wiped out 90% of all the forests turned a lot of land into desert,so you might be right. The odd things is with what we know we could change our behavior if doing so was considered... more
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