Compton_effect
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I'm starting to worry about the long term environmental effects of Eskom's running of their current plants.
I stay in Meyerton and recently we've had a lot of dust storms from Lethabo Power Plant's direction.
I'm pretty sure its the ash from their piles that is blowing off during the summer storms.
And every time it rains my pool's surface is covered with small oil slicks. The zeolite in my sand filter cleans it up after a day or so - but the water when I backwash is milky white.
Yesterday afternoon one dust storm blew over Meyerton in the direction of Alberton - Visibility was down to 100m at one time - the cars on the R59 had their headlights on. Now Lethabo was designed to burn the lowest grade coal possible - the ash is high in heavy metals, lead, etc. It looks like they are pushing the systems past their limits, and that ash is spreading far and wide.
I stay in Meyerton and recently we've had a lot of dust storms from Lethabo Power Plant's direction.
I'm pretty sure its the ash from their piles that is blowing off during the summer storms.
And every time it rains my pool's surface is covered with small oil slicks. The zeolite in my sand filter cleans it up after a day or so - but the water when I backwash is milky white.
Yesterday afternoon one dust storm blew over Meyerton in the direction of Alberton - Visibility was down to 100m at one time - the cars on the R59 had their headlights on. Now Lethabo was designed to burn the lowest grade coal possible - the ash is high in heavy metals, lead, etc. It looks like they are pushing the systems past their limits, and that ash is spreading far and wide.