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arrowhead """lakes""" in phoenix, az

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[–] Noodles4dinner@hexbear.net 83 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My first thought was, this must smell really bad so i looked into it. Apparently they stock the "lakes" and when it rains (once every six months), all the fish die from the chemical runoff from everyone's yards.

Unlimited genocide on arrowhead lakes.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They say the fall of the Roman empire was seen to some as simply when their roads and bridges stopped being repaired, the fall of the yankee empire will be marked by no government workers showing up to stock your pond so it turns into a malaria cesspool

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 9 hours ago

These things will become uninhabitable with 1/100 of the neglect of a Roman road.

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

chemical runoff from everyone's yards.

Lawns qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is that chemical runoff from pesticides/herbicides? Or do they have to pump their lawns full of so much fertilizer to get the grass to grow there that the nitrate levels are through the roof?

[–] derry@midwest.social 14 points 19 hours ago

All of the above

[–] soyaboya@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't look into this specific place but I imagine those plus -- cars -- are enough to kill animals as small as fish. Non-gas (liquid and solid) pollution as I like to call them, from autos are plenty. Tire wear particles, random metal debris from chasis and drive-chain, fuel, oil, grease, coolant leaks, brake dust, exhaust soot, there's a whole bunch of shit coming out of them than just CO2. Truely an evil technology.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

cars [...] non-gas pollution

The HOA's Architectural Guidelines confirms:

screenshot of text "Water discharged from the pool, spa or hot tub cannot be backwashed into the lake, street, or golf course (streets drain into the lake). Pools and spas must be drained into the sewer cleanout. See City of Glendale Code Section 25-24e and 30-4 for regulations on backwashing." with "streets drain into the lake" highlighted

Also, as explained in the HOA rules i linked in my other comment, people can't swim in the lake (or eat the fish they stock it with; it's strictly catch-and-release fishing) because it's filled with reclaimed wastewater.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 day ago

no fucking way man that's invoking the dead guinea pig copypasta with the snake