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powdery snow covers the surface of a frozen pond. it has been scraped away in places and underneath is wet green (algae-filled?) slush. There doesn't appear to be any solid ice underneath
I went walking on some frozen ponds the other day, reckoning it had been below freezing for long enough that they'd be frozen absolutely solid. In the middle of one of the ponds, for some reason I decided to scrape the snow off with my boot to see what the ice was like. I was pretty shocked to find out that the "solid" ice I was standing on was nothing but (algae-filled?) green slush. I beat a fairly hasty retreat off the ice.
These ponds take most of the street runoff from the south eastern edge of Toronto. This time of year we dump so much salt on the roads it concentrates in the ponds. What I suspect happens is that the ponds are too salty to freeze properly. Can't explain the green algae, though
These ponds take most of the street runoff from the south eastern edge of Toronto. This time of year we dump so much salt on the roads it concentrates in the ponds. What I suspect happens is that the ponds are too salty to freeze properly. Can't explain the green algae, though
