Vancouver Island river runs neon green!

[Tonington]

YouTube - Goldstream's Green River

Any of our BC posters heard of this? It's a suspected prank, as a fountain in Langford became neon green around the same time. Victoria Times Colonist quotes Dan Gilmore, a spokesman for BC Environment Ministry:

Fluorescein is a synthetic organic compound soluble in water and alcohol. It is widely used as a fluorescent tracer for many applications. The product itself and its products of degradation are not toxic.​

Though Vancouver Island Health Authority medical health officer Murray Fyfe said that it can be allergenic.

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[eh1eh]

Ummm? Like how many friggin' barrel of that stuff do you need and how much is it a gallon?
Is this a rich dudes prank or do we need Scully, Mulder and Dunham.

 

[Tonington]

I don't think you need much. They used to use this stuff to dye the Chicago River green for St Patty's Day, but now they use a vegetable based dye, which isn't as fluorescent. 40 gallons of the vegetable dye is enough to dye the Chicago River.

 

[lone wolf]

A cannister the size of a baby food jar shows up for a long way at sea

 

[Unforgiven]

Any reason that it's in the Goldstream river? We used to hang there when I lived in Victoria a bit. Nice place though when the Salmon run, ick.

 

[taxslave]

Been in the news for a couple of days now. No idea if they found out who or why. Probably neither. Nothing in todays Victoria paper that I saw anyway.