Re:We found a genius way to revive a poisoned river [video]
by specialist on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:41AM
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I'm in awe.
For me, bioremediation is sci-fi made real. It was all hypothetical back in the 90s. (I was volunteering at an org trying to save PNW salmon from extinction.)
Developers were being allowed to pave critical habitat in exchange for creating "wetlands" somewhere else. But no one knew how to do that. And many were skeptical it could even be done.
"By filling up the river bed with a specific kind of gravel, multiple things happen... [ new breeding grounds, water cleansing, oxygenation, natural overflow, new habitats]"
One tidbit I learned about PNW salmon is that all the varieties need very specific conditions, like the kind of gravel, to successfully reproduce.
It's makes me so frikkin happy to learn that people are now routinely doing stuff we only dreamed about just a few decades ago.
For me, bioremediation is sci-fi made real. It was all hypothetical back in the 90s. (I was volunteering at an org trying to save PNW salmon from extinction.)
Developers were being allowed to pave critical habitat in exchange for creating "wetlands" somewhere else. But no one knew how to do that. And many were skeptical it could even be done.
> restore the riverbed by adding gravel
https://youtu.be/ZgItGjKu4mQ?t=415
So important.
Same info pulled from the accompanying article https://planetwild.com/blog/how-were-reviving-a-poisoned-riv...
"By filling up the river bed with a specific kind of gravel, multiple things happen... [ new breeding grounds, water cleansing, oxygenation, natural overflow, new habitats]"
One tidbit I learned about PNW salmon is that all the varieties need very specific conditions, like the kind of gravel, to successfully reproduce.
It's makes me so frikkin happy to learn that people are now routinely doing stuff we only dreamed about just a few decades ago.