Barataria estuary now ground zero in oil spill

[phantom power]

BARATARIA BAY, La. – The meandering sand dunes and bird islands of Barataria Bay have become the epicenter of the environmental disaster spewing from BP's offshore well. And fishermen are bitter.

Oil-caked birds, stranded sea turtles, globs of gooey brown crude on beaches, coated crabs and mats of tar have been found throughout the inlets and mangroves that dot the bay. The oil has smothered this watery otherworld with a rainbow sheen and is threatening the complex web of wetlands, marshes and bayous that make up this national treasure.

Everything from crabbing to bait fishing is shutting down, and the anger on the bayou is palpable.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100614/ap_on_re_us/us_gulf_oil_spill_barataria

[dipsydoodle]

1. Ground zero ?

I'm not sure there is such a thing an estuary that isn't at sea level.

[kestrel91316]

2. Estuaries ARE at sea level. Were you home "schooled"?????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary

[dipsydoodle]

3. The question incase you hadn't noticed

was why bother to call an estuary ground zero when as we both know its ground zero by definition.

[phantom power]

4. This was "ground zero" in the "atom bomb" sense, not the elevation sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero