Post by L Roebuck on Aug 22, 2008 7:42:39 GMT -5
Finding the key to karst
Neil Horner, Alberni Valley News
When Reid Robinson looks at a stream gushing from the mouth of an underground stream, he thinks about how clean and pure water is.
Sometimes however, he also thinks of Walkerton and the drinking water tragedy of May 2000. As he watches the water gush out of the ground he sometimes wonders, could it happen here?
The issue isn’t lax supervision or poor regulations leading to water quality issues. What’s of concern to Robinson, and to Alberni-Qualicum MLA Scott Fraser, is karst topography and the way water moves through it. That movement, said Robinson, an experienced caver from Port Alberni, can be summed up in one word: fast.
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Neil Horner, Alberni Valley News
When Reid Robinson looks at a stream gushing from the mouth of an underground stream, he thinks about how clean and pure water is.
Sometimes however, he also thinks of Walkerton and the drinking water tragedy of May 2000. As he watches the water gush out of the ground he sometimes wonders, could it happen here?
The issue isn’t lax supervision or poor regulations leading to water quality issues. What’s of concern to Robinson, and to Alberni-Qualicum MLA Scott Fraser, is karst topography and the way water moves through it. That movement, said Robinson, an experienced caver from Port Alberni, can be summed up in one word: fast.
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