Posting on Other Sites and Nitrogen Removal

This blog is starting to be discussed on other sites, and that is a good thing. Our purpose is to stimulate discussion – and education – on this subject. But please post here too (or maybe a link to your other post). If you post or discuss this idea somewhere else, it is only by luck that we might find that discussion. We don’t mind principled opposition here; we have stuff to learn too. But if discussion of these posts takes place only somewhere else, we fear some ideas might not have the beneift of full discussion.
For example, we have been told that there is some discussion about how removing phosphorous is much less expensive than we say. Removing phosphorous is relatively cheap, but that is a red herring, a sophisticated red herring but unfair to genuine learning. Phosphorous and nitrogen are problem nutrients. Removing one is easy, consistently removing both takes more brains, money and effort. See page 40 of Water Policy Working Paper 2005-011 at the Georgia Water Policy and Planning Center. And if you don’t remove both, the impact downstream will continue.