LA Reservoir Filled with Plastic Balls – On Purpose
This is be something that would probably cause you to do a double-take if you drove by. Four hundred-thousand black plastic balls were dumped into one of Los Angeles’ open-air reservoirs. Why? In hopes of preventing a chemical reaction that can damage the water supply.
The balls are giving shade to the water. This comes after a previous incident of sunlight reacting with chlorine to taint the water with bromate, which can cause cancer.
For what they deemed a “cost effective method” of creating shade, it sure is weird. I wonder who came up with that idea? Do they have a secret …read more
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