Post by Jay Blair on Sept 6, 2005 15:55:37 GMT -5
Today on the morning news I saw an interview with a microbiologist addressing the polluted water of New Orleans.
The culture he showed during the interview showed it teeming with human waste bacteria.
The same news piece showed a 24 inch diameter pump line spewing water back over the restored levee.
This then reminded me of the post and pictures Mimi posted on our yahoo worms turn board at
groups.yahoo.com/group/wormturns/message/217
Since red worms can consume 1/2 their weight per day, I got to wondering how well a biomass of worms could survive on the contaminated water while reducing the waste contamination.
Could a barge filled with sand and worms be floated with empty sea going barges to prevent scuttling during the pump in of water to the compost worm based barge bin?
Could the contents of these floating worm bed water filters then be used for topsoil fill for the lower laying regions of the area within the levee? Would this be a viable approach to raising low laying areas of New Orleans?
How much cleansing of the human effluent polluted water could be achieved this way?
Are the FEMA microbiologists considering this type of possible solution?
Is FEMA doing web searches for forums as ours as a means of finding alternatives to filtering the polluted waters?
I wonder if any of the large scale worm ranchers that advertise on the web have contacted FEMA or Homeland Security to supply vermicompost worms as filtering bio-mass?
Lets continue on with this discussion and look at pro , con and feasibility.
My apologies for using bold highlighting in the above text. The intention is not to make it harder to read but rather to make it more appealing to search engine web spiders . If some of the scientists are searching here on Internet 1.
The culture he showed during the interview showed it teeming with human waste bacteria.
The same news piece showed a 24 inch diameter pump line spewing water back over the restored levee.
This then reminded me of the post and pictures Mimi posted on our yahoo worms turn board at
groups.yahoo.com/group/wormturns/message/217
Since red worms can consume 1/2 their weight per day, I got to wondering how well a biomass of worms could survive on the contaminated water while reducing the waste contamination.
Could a barge filled with sand and worms be floated with empty sea going barges to prevent scuttling during the pump in of water to the compost worm based barge bin?
Could the contents of these floating worm bed water filters then be used for topsoil fill for the lower laying regions of the area within the levee? Would this be a viable approach to raising low laying areas of New Orleans?
How much cleansing of the human effluent polluted water could be achieved this way?
Are the FEMA microbiologists considering this type of possible solution?
Is FEMA doing web searches for forums as ours as a means of finding alternatives to filtering the polluted waters?
I wonder if any of the large scale worm ranchers that advertise on the web have contacted FEMA or Homeland Security to supply vermicompost worms as filtering bio-mass?
Lets continue on with this discussion and look at pro , con and feasibility.
My apologies for using bold highlighting in the above text. The intention is not to make it harder to read but rather to make it more appealing to search engine web spiders . If some of the scientists are searching here on Internet 1.
