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From this satellite photo it looks like the rain should wash the dog poop away. Hopefully the respective Depts. of Public Works maintain or at least keep the water drain covers clear from debris. Looks like a whole lotta rain!

Actually rainwater and poop left on the grass runs into the storm drains which dump into March Creek with increases the oxygen solids and nitrogen levels in the creek which is bad for the spawning salmon.

I'm contributing to an ecosystem that is not conducive for salmon spawning. I'm a bad person.

Roscoe's never even had a collar, he has a doggie door so he comes and goes as he pleases. Sometimes the neighbor dogs come and visit and they go off and play somewhere, if I start to worry I just go out and blow the car horn. Roscoe will come running home in a matter of minutes.
My biggest worry is that an Alligator will get him.

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Well, there was almost no television, so people were a lot less stunned, hypnotized, brainwashed and loony than they are now.

On the other hand, they were incredibly naive, and offered no resistance to the founding of the National Security State and the dictatorship of the Military-Industrial Conspiracy Complex.

I'm a bad person because I don't pick up the poop right away and it sits right next to a green belt storm drain grate. Therefore, when the run-off goes into the storm drain, the run-off contains fertilizer from the grass and dog/cat poop nitrogen and these elements increase the oxygen solids of Marsh Creek due to the lack of rehabilitation of storm run-off waters between the urban areas and where the storm drains dump into Marsh Creek.

As I am an advocate for the salmon spawning in Marsh Creek, I am also the problem to the spawning of salmon in Marsh Creek.

I have googled the term "oxygen solids" and have not found anything in the first three pages of results that appears related to the context above. Can you tell me what you mean by oxygen solids?

Thanks Churlpy, the correct term is dissolved oxygen: atmospheric oxygen that is dissolved into the wastewater.

Dissolved oxygen analysis measures the amount of gaseous oxygen (O2) dissolved in an aqueous solution. Oxygen gets into water by diffusion from the surrounding air, by aeration (rapid movement), and as a waste product of photosynthesis.

Total dissolved gas concentrations in water should not exceed 110 percent. Concentrations above this level can be harmful to aquatic life. The bubbles or emboli block the flow of blood through blood vessels causing death. External bubbles (emphysema) can also occur and be seen on fins, on skin and on other tissue.

In Marsh Creek's instance, we're concerned with photosynthesis by algae.

Under certain conditions, several species of true algae as well as the cyanobacteria are capable of causing various nuisance effects in fresh water, such as excessive accumulations of foams, scums, and discoloration of the water.

Blooms generally occur where there are high levels of nutrients present, together with the occurrence of warm, sunny, calm conditions.

Natural sources of nutrients such as phosphorus or nitrogen compounds can be supplemented by a variety of human activities. For example, in rural areas, agricultural runoff from fields can wash fertilizers into the water. In urban areas, nutrient sources can include treated wastewaters from septic systems and sewage treatment plants, and urban stormwater runoff that carries nonpoint-source pollutants such as lawn fertilizers.

In Brentwood, CA where I live, we are both an agricultural area AND an urban area - so it's a double whammy to Marsh Creek. The south, south-east section of Brentwood is all agricultural: Almonds, corn, cherries, peaches, oranges, pistachios.

The urban line ends six-tenths of a mile east of me where the agricultural fields begin. A park I take Sam to, three city blocks away, has its eastern border, bordering an agricultural field - literally. On one side of the eastern edge of the park is a sidewalk where the park is on the west side of the sidewalk, and an agricultural field on the left side of the sidewalk.

Picture of park described above (...and Sam )
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[u]Greedy Corporation eats its young[/u].

Nice pictures of Sammy, Rick! But the leash laws are the same for where I live-in fact the leash laws are in effect where you live, too.