Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results

Post by mensetmanusman » Sat, Feb 05, 2022, 3:33 AM UTC

germinalphrase wrote: post #25

quickthrowman wrote: post #8

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To be clear, the PFOS pollution in the St Croix is almost certainly from groundwater contamination from 3M manufacturing and dump sites near or in the lower St Croix watershed, not road water runoff.

The 3M-PFAS connection is clearly established. Run off is also a known problem and clear trade offs are being considered. (which is not a dismissal for the problems).

Post by 0des » Sat, Feb 05, 2022, 4:51 AM UTC

gxqoz wrote: post #21

I wonder when the trend of funny names for this type of stuff is going to end. I find these names mildly amusing but I have to think that at some point a younger audience is going to find this type of naming convention really cringeworthy.

Post by steve_adams_86 » Sat, Feb 05, 2022, 8:00 AM UTC

rcurry wrote: post #27

superkuh wrote: post #2

That's fun. But Minnesotans might also be interested in the what happens to the road (and other) run-off water. Minnesota Pollution Control's 2021 impaired water bodies result just came out too: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/minnesotas-impaired-waters... It turns out that the St. Croix river that makes up much of the eastern state border near the Twin Cities is so heavily polluted with perfluorooctane sulfonic ac…

I used to be an avid fisherman and thirty years ago I’d routinely eat every decent fish that I caught. Now days I’m strictly catch and release - I just get a bad feeling about water quality no matter what lake I’m fishing in. I don’t follow eco stuff as much as I should, but I think it’s sad we can’t trust our lakes anymore.

Post by nkrisc » Sat, Feb 05, 2022, 1:52 PM UTC

throwaway6867 wrote: post #22

nkrisc wrote: post #11

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Why are you making this about Eastern Europeans? There are countless Americans with that last name, it’s an American movie, and as I recall the characters in the movie bearing that name are American. Lastly, these snowplows are also in the US. Everything about this is American. Eastern Europeans don’t enter into it.

It’s a Eastern European name. Countless Americans have it because they are of Eastern European origin.

Post by superkuh » Sun, Feb 06, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #35

rcurry wrote: post #27

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I used to be an avid fisherman and thirty years ago I’d routinely eat every decent fish that I caught. Now days I’m strictly catch and release - I just get a bad feeling about water quality no matter what lake I’m fishing in. I don’t follow eco stuff as much as I should, but I think it’s sad we can’t trust our lakes anymore.

It’s worth looking into data if it’s available. There’s a waterway in my city that was very polluted a century ago and is locally considered to be disgusting. Recent data shows it’s one of the cleanest in the city, now. There are clean places still, but you often need to dig to find out.