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coloured water on top of silage pit

  • 31-08-2011 1:06pm
    #1
    kenny d
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    hi folks.Just wondering if anyone can provide an answer to this. Took a walk up on top of 1st cut silage pit yesterday and i have lots of little puddles of reddish water a bit like as if it came off a roof. Only thing is there is no roof near it. Is it coming off the tyres ?


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  • #2
    bob charles
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    Free industrial Sulphur, Any heavy industry within 20km. Its an added cost nowadays having to apply sulphur since the clean up of industry.


  • #3
    LostCovey
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    bob charles wrote: »
    Free industrial Sulphur, Any heavy industry within 20km. Its an added cost nowadays having to apply sulphur since the clean up of industry.

    Maybe, but more likely a growth of a pigmented alga in the stagnant water

    LC


  • #4
    bigted2
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    LostCovey wrote: »
    Maybe, but more likely a growth of a pigmented alga in the stagnant water

    LC
    would agree with that:)


  • #5
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    I've seen some spectacular algal blooms in my time, greens, blues, pinks,browns. Indeed I have photos somewhere. I must root them out!


  • #6
    Bizzum
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    A nice colourful bloom!


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  • #7
    LostCovey
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    Bizzum wrote: »
    A nice colourful bloom!

    Lovely photo. Those blue-green ones are very dangerous. I remember reading in the paper a few years ago that a woman had two dogs that ran into a lake with this in Westmeath I think, and they never came out - died in minutes from it.

    LC


  • #8
    kenny d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭kenny d


    Many thanks to all replies - am very grateful for your ideas/theories. I have a feeling the sulphur one could be the reason as there is a quarry and cement block business about 10 clicks away


  • #9
    LostCovey
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    kenny d wrote: »
    Many thanks to all replies - am very grateful for your ideas/theories. I have a feeling the sulphur one could be the reason as there is a quarry and cement block business about 10 clicks away
    That's scary it must be a kip. Amazing to think it could be droppping visible amounts of sulphur over a 10 km radius.


  • #10
    vincenzolorenzo
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    You'd be surprised how far sulphur and other particle emissions are carried. Acidification of lakes in scandinavia in the 60s and 70s were caused by emissions heavy industry in eastern and central europe. Right now in Galway there's a station monitoring the quality of air coming in from the atlantic. The only pollutants coming from there are from USA, transatlantic pollutants in other words :)


  • #11
    kenny d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭kenny d


    The business is definitely not a poorly run facility. Indeed I would go as far as to say that it would be run very well as far as modern up to date enviromental issues are concerned.Guess it just goes to show that we can't be sure of what is in the air !


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  • #12
    bob charles
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    Well as described above if it on my pits is definitely Sulphur as I live quite close to very heavy industry. Amounts of sulphur have really declined in the last few decades and nowadays we spread quite allot of sulphur on our lands to keep crops moving, long ago this was unheard off


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