To the editor:

Toxic chlorinated products are invisible to the eye, which creates a mysterious, chemical world of unknowns like chlorine, which produces over 450 byproducts that are toxic to marine life.

The problem is that DAILY, in Narragansett Bay alone, tons of these hazardous waste products are dumped into wastewater sewage flows. Another problem is that the nitrogen in the wastewater is a food base for all marine life, and the chlorinated byproducts never go away even during the dechlorination process. This process is done by mixing chlorinated wastewater with another chemical such as sodium bisulfate, which is also known to kill starfish. This also adds more byproducts. Ask a Bay fisher what happened to the Bay’s starfish.

Is the nitrogen marine food base being poisoned? What do you think? Are we putting jobs, food, commercial and recreational resources at risk?

There are more effective and cheaper wastewater treatments, such as Ultraviolet lighting (UV), that is being used worldwide and locally.

Robert Morris
Bristol