tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post5645287552454867885..comments2024-03-13T10:32:22.656+00:00Comments on thanetonline: Kent International Airport Margate and despair at the grindings of government a day off rambleMichael Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-72806727555592948092011-01-22T12:31:06.863+00:002011-01-22T12:31:06.863+00:0020.17 off thread comments naming local people and ...20.17 off thread comments naming local people and associating them with sleaze are not a good idea, my advice is get your own blog.Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-23543267664170765802011-01-21T20:17:50.945+00:002011-01-21T20:17:50.945+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-23793371481593322952011-01-21T19:42:53.965+00:002011-01-21T19:42:53.965+00:00Tony I am still digesting this stuff would say whe...Tony I am still digesting this stuff would say when the drainage system first went in everything that landed on the runway, came out of the end of the pipe at Pegwell.<br /><br />I am pretty sure that these pipes are concrete sections about 1 metre long and about 1.5 metres in diameter, I think it started out as a loop going right round the main runway connected to a bit going off to Pegwell.<br /><br />I would think ground settling shifts would have meant that the very soon the whole thing leaked like a sieve, so that pretty much everything that fell on the runway went into our drinking water aquifer.<br /><br />My guess is that their attempts to seal the leaks won’t be very effective, so how much ever gets to Pegwell is a bit debatable.<br /><br />I pointed out that the interceptor would only remove the oil and fuel and that other stuff like the antifreeze used for de-icing the planes would get through it, their counter argument was that ethanol and glycol are biodegradable. <br /><br />The engineering inspections seem to involve putting thousands litres in to the system and nothing noticeable coming out.<br /><br />There is a lot of box ticking involved here too, and frankly I think most drainage systems leak a lot and not much is said about it, supply systems water and gas now involve plastic pipe and pressure testing for leaks even happens occasionally. <br /><br />On the whole though the situation is getting better and it isn’t really that long ago that pretty much all of the liquid waste in Thanet went untreated into the sea or soaked into the ground.<br /><br />Pretty much all of the solid waste went into holes in the ground over the aquifer or was dumped at sea.<br /><br />Trouble is that with dealing with waste and with the uncontaminated rain water, like the water that lands on roofs and should be going straight into the aquifer, we have a long way to go.<br /><br />The biggest contaminant in the local water supply is nitrates, present in sewage and agricultural fertiliser. Consider if you will how much excess fertiliser, that the crops didn’t need, a farmer you pay for and spread on the ground to be wasted and soak into the chalk. Every time you see a hole in the road look at the sewage pipes, usually brown or grey. Now consider what proportion comes from where.Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-14382114121820769312011-01-21T17:52:49.994+00:002011-01-21T17:52:49.994+00:00Surely, this will be very difficult to monitor as ...Surely, this will be very difficult to monitor as the eco system has co exsisted with the fresh water from the Stour and the pollutants it carries for many years. To the left of the old hoverport is a marine rubbish dump of debris deposited by the tide and further along the coast at the western undercliff is a thriving oyster population. In the bay itself is a cockle population, lugworm and between the bay and the western undercliff there is a bristle worm and razor fish populations.A J Ovendenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07145698477921862643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-52388776265892593262011-01-21T12:08:37.230+00:002011-01-21T12:08:37.230+00:000841, a playground full or schoolchildren doesn...0841, a playground full or schoolchildren doesn't fly over the whole of Ramsgate at less that 1,000 feet, nor does it want to do it at night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-12506460430619864662011-01-21T08:41:29.139+00:002011-01-21T08:41:29.139+00:00>
The main noise monitor was first located next...><br />The main noise monitor was first located next to a school playground, when the children came out to play the noise they made sent the monitor right up to the jumbo jet end of the scale, so it had to moved.<br />><br />There you have it, proof there is loud noise all around us that we 'accept' yet moan about the possibility of a few planes each hour. Typical Ramsgate resident attitude!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-71626130507041396712011-01-20T23:46:02.329+00:002011-01-20T23:46:02.329+00:00The joke shop probably hides the chief executives ...The joke shop probably hides the chief executives office.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com