Re[2]: [at-l] Purell vs. Poison Ivy?

[Josh Wilkins" <jtwilkins@mediaone.net (Josh Wilkins)]

I hear ya...
One time Amy and I were taking a bath in a lake in the middle of Michigan...
At first I was like we cant use soap in this water... well then looking
around me their was about 50 motor boats and 30 jet skis flying around the
lake dumping who knows how much gas and oil and other crap in the water. So
I continued washing with no remorse... the poor echo system probly need the
phosphates to regrow some of the dead plant life..
Living on the great lakes I always laugh too when park rangers talk about
LNT and the great lakes. Some of the most polluted and abused fresh water in
the world and you want to remind me not to do anything within 200 ft of
it... LOL
JTW

> I've been doing environmental work for almost 20 years and I haven't come
> across any evidence that soapy water is a big deal except mass dosing of
> phosphates in small sole-source drinking water bodies (easily dissipated
and
> converted in the bigger, wider wonderful world).  Phosphates on the land
> fertilize over time.  I suspect if there is evidence of harm out there,
it's
> deeply entrenched in stealth mode or somebody would have trotted it out by
> now.  Air deposition of goodies into waterbodies is the real issue (Great
> Lakes initiative, Gulf Coast watershed study, etc.).
>
> Black&blue