Have you been hearing the stories about the Mercury at the train station? Apparently it was discovered in a box dumped at the garbage and the garbage truck picked it up and spread it all over town and on the bridges that cross Alhambra Creek right where the beavers used to live. Oh, I am personally having a moment of relief that they aren’t living there right now

What I am impressed by is that the new mayor of Martinez wrote me personally and asked me about dangerous conditions for the creek, and if I would contact the other creek people so we could possibly get them on the agenda to discuss the Mercury. If the last mayor and the beavers were still here, he would be rubbing his hands together in delight to get rid of them but Brianne Zorn takes this very seriously so that is very good news.

Igor has some great suggestions about what we should do to test for mercury near the storm drains the fall into the creek. He also said that Mercury isn’t truly hazardous until it becomes methyl mercury and we should deal with it before that stage.

Stay tuned.