Sunday, August 16, 2009

Why is Moccasin Creek so polluted?

The answer is simple: COAL TAR!! Northwestern Energy is cleaning out the contaminants from an old manufacturing plant. Now we know why the water tastes bad!!

Northwest Energy's article
http://www.northwesternenergy.com/display.aspx?Page=Moccasin_Creek

Wikipedia on Coal Tar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_tar

Article on Coal Tar
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-coal-tar.htm

1 comment:

FJ Berry said...

Now everyone that lives there and reads this will understand why there river water tastes so bad. COAL TAR!!!!!!!