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7/29/08 - Meanwhile @ Wapato Lake
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7/28 - Faulty chemical mix may have caused fish kill, Tacoma News Tribune
7/28 - Metro Parks board to discuss Wapato Lake fish kill tonight, Tacoma News Tribune
7/27 - Wapato fish die a day after lake treatment, Tacoma News Tribune
7/27 - Tacoma fish dead after lake is treated for algae, King5.com
6/17/2007 - Mall sewage flows near Wapato Lake, Tacoma News Tribune
6/15/2007 - Mall Sewage Draining Where?, Exit133
2/13/2007 - Early Wapato Lake report calls its condition serious, Tacoma News Tribune
2/13/2007 - Wapato Lake polluted and dying, KevinFreitas.net
Save Wapato Park
7/28 - Metro Parks board to discuss Wapato Lake fish kill tonight, Tacoma News Tribune
7/27 - Wapato fish die a day after lake treatment, Tacoma News Tribune
7/27 - Tacoma fish dead after lake is treated for algae, King5.com
6/17/2007 - Mall sewage flows near Wapato Lake, Tacoma News Tribune
6/15/2007 - Mall Sewage Draining Where?, Exit133
2/13/2007 - Early Wapato Lake report calls its condition serious, Tacoma News Tribune
2/13/2007 - Wapato Lake polluted and dying, KevinFreitas.net
Save Wapato Park
Comments [28]
 by izenmania on 7/29/2008 @ 8:13am | RxR's second (to my knowledge) combination of Cthulhu with Tacoma, having previously wowed us with Chihuly/Cthulhu:
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 by fredo on 7/29/2008 @ 8:23am | Another well-observed RR masterpiece. |
 by NineInchNachos on 7/29/2008 @ 9:33am | from Wikipedia: "Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. "
RR commentary: the idea that the more you know the more mad you'll be is one that fits the wapato lake area pretty well. cosmic horror! |
 by Mofo from the Hood on 7/29/2008 @ 10:30am | The universe is fundamentally a cosmos, a logical system and structured order; not chaos. Note Carl Sagan's book title: Cosmos.
It may be that human minds lack the capacity to come to understand all mysteries, but much has been discerned about the universe. Note Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of the Law of Gravity. Newton didn't invent the law; it was already there waiting to be discerned. The same for the principles of logic. Aristotle didn't invent logic. It's an observable characteristic of the universe. The saying, "Ignorance is bliss," addresses the cosmic horror statement. It is true that the more one comes to understand then the more one becomes aware or sensitive to complexity. But that condition is not an explanation why people go insane. However, it would be a gamble with sanity, it would be irrational to conduct one's life ungoverned by the principles of reason. But that's how today many skeptics conduct their delusional rainbow filled lives. To deny universal truths would in fact result in cosmic horror. |
 by Erik on 7/29/2008 @ 10:32am | Nice. Now you are starting a collection on the Tacoma Mall. Just in time for the grand opening. RxR's second (to my knowledge) combination of Cthulhu with Tacoma, having previously wowed us with Chihuly/Cthulhu: Reminds me of the Smog Monster.  Hedorah (ヘドラ, Hedora?), also known as the Smog Monster, is a fictional creature from the 1971 film Godzilla vs. Hedorah (titled Godzilla vs the Smog Monster in the U.S.). The monster was named for hedoro (ヘドãƒ, hedoro?), the Japanese word for sludge, vomit, slime or chemical ooze. Hedorah is a monster formed from pollution that fed on pollution. Falling to earth as a cloud of spores, Hedorah hatched into millions of microscopic tadpole like creatures which began to feed upon the toxins mankind had poisoned its air and water with. As the creatures increased in number and power, they began to merge into a being of living sludge capable of reducing the entire planet to an uninhabitable wasteland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedorah U Tube : Smog monster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELDVjutzan8 |
by NineInchNachos on 7/29/2008 @ 10:44am | I tend to agree with mofo, if there was a brain capable of figuring out the cosmos it's the human brain.
time will tell. unfortunately the only habitat in the entire universe suited for keeping those humans alive is getting pissed away by the armies of unholy anti-human 'consumers' and THE CONSPIRACY |
by Mofo from the Hood on 7/29/2008 @ 10:54am | DOWN WITH THE CONSPIRACY! |
by NineInchNachos on 7/29/2008 @ 11:12am | Yes friends, THE CONSPIRACY is clever.
It presents us with anti-consumer music and films, yet all these things are just consumer products 'skinned' with cheap anti-consumer branding. The easy thing to do would be to go insane or commit suicide, yet we of HOLISTIC FORGE WORKS are not interested in the easy thing. We are interested in the awesome thing. Long live the tacomic! Tacoma's only open-source political cartoon! |
by Erik on 7/29/2008 @ 11:28am | ...yet we of HOLISTIC FORGE WORKS are not interested in the easy thing. We are interested in the awesome thing. Long live the tacomic! Tacoma's only open-source political cartoon! Better keep your ad buster game up RR. You are going to have to face off with your arch enemy Clear Channel in the next year or two. There will be a lot at stake for Tacoma. |
by NineInchNachos on 7/29/2008 @ 12:02pm | Erik, Frost park is the people's version of clear channel.
So far artists have only been drawing the musical equivalent of 'easy listening' but it remains as one of the FREE places left in the city for everyday citizens to publicly self-express (without having to shell out a bunch of money to a giant evil corporation). Constitutions Matters |
by NineInchNachos on 7/29/2008 @ 12:04pm | also, Clear Channel has racked up about 8 million dollars worth of fines so far... anybody else keeping track?
www.feedtacoma.com/forum/tacoma-developm... |
by NineInchNachos on 7/29/2008 @ 10:27pm | www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/... |
by Mofo from the Hood on 7/29/2008 @ 11:22pm | RE: Tribune story.
Problem solved. Wapato Lake water hasn't been this clear in decades. Some polluted fish had to die. R.I.P. ...News? Tribune story edited Mofo News Network style: SCIENTISTS APPLY CHEMICALS TO WAPATO LAKE. A SCHOOL OF 33 DEAD STUDENT DIVERS FLOATS TO TOP OF LAKE! (Tacoma, WA) Local residents of the Wapato Lake area are disgusted. This week after scientists applied chemicals to the lake and made the water clearer than it has been in decades, several nearby residents complained. "This lake has been a burial ground for local dogs and cats for decades. How dare anyone disturb this sacred graveyard." "Yeah," said neighbor kid Jimmy, "My pet rat is buried there too. People are supposed to show respect for animals." |
by Erik on 7/30/2008 @ 12:06am | Yeah. One has to love the incredible spin: Despite fish kill, Wapato Lake looks better “I don’t think you want to plan for a die-off,†said Plotnikoff, a senior scientist with Tetra Tech, a Seattle-based company hired to sample and monitor the water. “Some fish were already distressed by critically low oxygen levels. It’s the lesser of two evils. You’ve got to treat for the human health threats.†... From a scientific standpoint, the treatment of the lake Friday with an aluminum compound was a complete success, Plotnikoff said Sunday afternoon. The usually scummy waters had cleared... www.thenewstribune.com/292/story/425696.... Only in Tacoma would such a chemical toxicity failure try to be spun to be normalized. |
by NineInchNachos on 7/30/2008 @ 9:27am | ha! |
 by Twisty on 7/30/2008 @ 9:43am | Nice. Now you are starting a collection on the Tacoma Mall. Just in time for the grand opening. Well, except for one little detail: runoff from the Mall doesn't flow into Wapato Lake. |
by NineInchNachos on 7/30/2008 @ 9:45am | raw sewage... not anymore though |
 by thriceallamerican on 7/30/2008 @ 9:46am | So let's just assume for a moment that the fish die-off was an understood risk of the treatment, and the "scientific explanation" that things are looking up for future aquatic life in the lake is true... Even if that's the case, who's the PR genius who (a) applied the chemicals on a Friday so that dead fish were washing up over the weekend, and (b) wasn't ready to offer a timely explanation of this risk assessment when the die-off happened? |
by NineInchNachos on 7/30/2008 @ 9:48am | isn't it standard practice to kill off all the non native species when restoring a lake? kill the gold fish and ex-pet turtles etc? |
by Mofo from the Hood on 7/30/2008 @ 1:10pm | Animal life was killed.
Plant life was killed. Silence. Just silence from the New Age Rainbow League Neo-Hindus. Why? Karma. That's why. Those who killed will be reincarnated as possum's. Then one night they will cross a Tacoma street, and get run over by a Vespa. Karma. Those who killed will then be reincarnated as slugs. Then one morning they will crawl out of a Tacoma garden and a six-year kid will pour salt on them. Karma. An endless cycle of humiliation, death, and reincarnation. Cosmic Horror...Cosmic Horror...Cosmic Horror... |
by Erik on 8/11/2008 @ 10:39pm | Stop the madness: How does Wapato Lake spell relief? A-n-t-a-c-i-d. It will take up to a ton of sodium bicarbonate – the ingredient found in Alka-Seltzer – to bring pH levels at the south Tacoma park back to where they should be, scientist Rob Plotnikoff told the Metro Parks board Monday night. “That is the safest and fastest way to restore the pH to meet the permit requirement and to meet the water quality ... expectations,†said Plotnikoff, who works for Seattle-based Tetra Tech, which was hired by Metro Parks. Last month, a chemical treatment meant to kill of toxic algae ended up making the lake too acidic, killing hundreds of fish. The problem was traced to the delivery of the wrong amount of chemicals, Plotnikoff told the five-member board. ... The sodium bicarbonate would be applied in two steps. First 1,200 pounds would be mixed into solution and then added to the water from shore. The water would be tested 24 hours later and 800 pounds would be kept in reserve if more was needed. It’s cheapest to order the antacid by the ton, costing around $1 per pound, Plotnikoff told the board. The initial treatment cost $98,000. www.thenewstribune.com/front/topstories/... |
by izenmania on 8/11/2008 @ 10:48pm | This Tacomic now looks down at my living room from the mantle. |
by Mofo from the Hood on 8/11/2008 @ 10:57pm | The good news is Plotnikoff does not have a license to practice pharmacy. |
by NineInchNachos on 8/11/2008 @ 11:20pm | Casey Treat told me that since the fish died without accepting Jesus into their hearts they are going to swim for all eternity on the great fire lake.
I went home and cried all night. I want my 20 bucks back! www.caseytreat.com/ |
by Mofo from the Hood on 8/11/2008 @ 11:42pm | I heard a Presbyterian Minister, Dr. James Boice, explain the spirit thing and it works like this: People have spirits and God consciousness which enables them to commune with God. Animals do not have spirits or a God awareness. Animals have something like a soul which is more like personality.
Famous fishes with personality: Charlie the Tuna, Flipper star of the TV series of the same name, the shark in "Jaws," Willie the killer whale, Namu the killer whale, Moby Dick, the big fish that swallowed Jonah. |
by NineInchNachos on 8/14/2008 @ 4:18pm | mystery car found in wapato lake!
www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/... |
by Erik on 8/14/2008 @ 5:05pm | The Wapato Lake fiasco is turning out to be far stranger and outrageous that any Tacomic could have predicted.
1) Mall pollution 2) Acid Fish Kill with acid 3) Bromide counter chemical 4) Mystery car (which could result in a foul play who done it mystery) |
by NineInchNachos on 8/14/2008 @ 5:11pm | I imagine dismembered body parts in the trunk. . but thats just the TV in my hair talking. |
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