and outflow of the river, the weeds are so bad they re literally blocking the ship traffic in and out of that industrial port. a big ocean going international freighter carrying cement from japan in october had to phone in a delay for the people who were waiting for them to drop that cargo at the port of stockton. the delay they had to phone in was a water hyacinth delay. there was this giant frickin ship carrying cement that they couldn t get around the hyacinth weeds to get that stuff dropped off. mechanically ripping the weeds out, used to be enough of a tactic to manage this problem. but it s just not anymore. the problem is getting worse and worse. it s too environmentally ruinous to dump her by side in the water to kill the weeds. now stockton has come up with a genius new plan, hippos. i made jackie laugh. hippos was not their first idea. in november stockton s mayor
i have no idea how much pot they smoke in stockton, or whether it s a problem. where they have a weed problem in stockton is actually in their river, in the san joaquin river. the weeds are so bad in that river, in the shipping channels that lead to the port in stockton, they re overgrowing the delta and the river itself. there s an aqueduct around there that the weeds are clogging up, and blocking not just the inflow and outflow of the river, the weeds are so bad they re literally blocking the ship traffic in and out of that industrial port. a big ocean going international freighter carrying cement from japan in october had to phone in a delay for the people who were waiting for them to drop that cargo at the port of stockton. the delay they had to phone in was a water hyacinth delay. there was this giant frickin ship carrying cement, that they couldn t get around the hyacinth weeds to get that stuff dropped off.
international freighter carrying cement from japan had to phone in a delay for the people who were waiting for them to drop that cargo at the port of stockton. the delay they had to phone in was a water hyacinth delay. there was this giant frickin ship carrying cement, that they couldn t get around the hyacinth weeds choking the port in order to get that stuff dropped off. mechanically ripping the weeds out, used to be enough of a tactic to manage this problem. but it s just not anymore. the problem is getting worse and worse. it s too environmentally ruinous to dump herbicide in the water to kill the weeds. now stockton has come up with a genius new plan, hippos. i made jackie laugh. hippos was not their first idea. in november, stockton s mayor had suggested bringing in manatees from florida. to eat the water hyacinths in the river. apparently it s like their favorite food. they can eat 100 pounds of those