advantage, because if you run the water tarorga a filtration
plant, the veal phosphorous stays on the sida,
DR. HERDS:
Whon you are ashed
about the concentration
factor for plants, you imnediately went to the Planktonic alga
and you andsdented 350,059 multiplication factor,
tively low in radioactivity.
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aquatic seed tyres that are growing in the water. They are
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I know that you would like to exphasise that that sort
I thought the ecolesists might be
‘Anterested in knowing that ws do not have such a concentration
in sced piants that have their roots in tho river.
DR. FOSTER: That is true,
The margin of vegetation is
“much lower
MISS PATRICK:
Have you evor dona any studics on the
attached algao?
DR. FOSTER:
Yes, We have studios on the attached
algae, but the variability in this material is so great that we
have almost stonved sampling the thing
We have several factors
which are involved in this attached algae.
One is that we do fet
@ rathor violent fluctuation in the Columbia River,
The flood
stase is the worst since this goos up from here (indicating)
to about 15 feot hicher and back down acain during the flicod stase
: There are wookly variations in terrs of a foot to a
fcot and a half in this particular area (indicating) because of
the power cams that aro usstream, and during
the Sunday clese of