- March 12, 2006
Snowmelt and Toxicology
With pictures of roofs cracking under masses of snow on TV in Europe and Northern America it is time to focus on the impact of snowmelt on aquatic ecosystems. Snowmelt when augmented with rain is not only a heavy load on roofs but also a load for influenced rivers and lakes which are to receive the contained pollutants. After several months of frost airborne deposits that have been conserved in the snow masses, and soil matter that has been disrupted by ice are now...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0102537/2006/03/12.html#a16
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