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

[PSM111359@prodigy.net (Patti Miller)]

I wouldn't be able to bring myself to do it today, but as a kid I took many
baths in those beautiful Michigan lakes.  My grandpa had some vacation
property up there and he would send us kids out to the lake with a bar of
ivory.  Yep, and right after we had been in the boat water skiing and
tubing.  Pollution was not even in our vocabulary.

Patti
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Wilkins" <jtwilkins@mediaone.net>
To: "at-l" <AT-L@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [at-l] Purell vs. Poison Ivy?


> 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
>
>
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