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Urban Hikers on Assignment
updated: Jun 22, 2012, 11:05 AM
By The Urban Hikers
On Thursday afternoon Roger the Scanner Guy gave us our first ever investigative assignment, sending us to the bird
refuge to follow-up his visit earlier that day. By the time we arrived, the boat was gone (it must be a 9-5 thing). What we found was a pretty stinky situation,
which included a variety of birds and animals, an abandoned homeless encampment, and a transient-looking guy having a smoke.
Considering the area is covered in wood chips and the excess biogenic gas hanging in the air is so thick we could smell it all the way up at Anapamu
street last night, smoking in the vicinity was probably not the greatest idea. From what we can determine, the stinky gas is made up of a combination of at
least some of these elements: oxygen, nitrogen, water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, nitric acid, ammonia,
nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, carbonyl sulfide, dimethyl sulfide and other non-methane hydrocarbons. Seems to us that might make it
flammable...but then again we’re hikers, not scientists.
Like many others, we wish the City would take this problem more seriously than it does. Of the gases being emitted at the bird refuge , only nitrogen
and oxygen are non - green house gasses. So it seems to us that we presently have a giant green house gas factory right at the entrance of our city. It reeks,
it’s unattractive, it reoccurs just about every year and it’s impossible not to notice - it’s a bit like having an elephant in the living room. It’s also a mystery
why, with all the efforts and resources our local government has to keep our air and water clean, someone out there can’t find a reasonable and speedy
solution to this putrid condition.
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