I Beg Your Pardon, But There’s Phosphorus in Your Rain Gardens

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Newly built rain gardens in the Hoyer Heights neighborhood would help prevent flooding and filter out pollutants — including phosphorus, one of the main culprits behind the increasingly common toxic algae blooms on city lakes, according to the city.

But a 2021 study conducted by the city and the University of Minnesota, and recently shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune, suggests the new rain gardens are likely making the city’s phosphorus problem worse. More

8 Comments on I Beg Your Pardon, But There’s Phosphorus in Your Rain Gardens

  1. The obvious solution is to ban straws.

    Particularly, high-phosphorous straws.

    And those clear, plastic vegetable bags in the produce section of your supermarket? They’re full of deadly phosphorous. Ban them.

    This isn’t rocket science.

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  2. It sure looks like Erickson and the city’s boffins designed these rain gardens, spent a bunch of money on construction, and populated their gardens based on untested ideas. And then they fertilized with untested mulch.

    I bet they could get jobs with Pfizer or Moderna if they get booted from their current gigs for incompetence and stupidity.

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  3. I’m looking at that frog photo thumbnail on this article and I think I see the water pollution problem right there. Those frogs PEE in that water! POOP, to!

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