Not in my Backyard !

[oosik]

Jinman,
Domestic residential sewage is difficult to pin down. Normally solids will be only 0.1 to 0.75%(less than one percent) by volume. This is one of the reasons it is costly to treat - so much liquid to solid and once the liquid & solid are mixed the mixture must all receive treatment. Of course, the other reason is pathogenic microorganisms which can be exceedingly difficult to kill. This is why the spreading of sewage from a pump truck is, normally, so tightly controlled by the local health dept. Where I worked for the health dept here in WA one of the conditions was the tractor & disk harrow had to be in the field with operator when the pumper truck arrived so the disking in operation could start w/out delay. The tractor had to have annual operational certification from a registered dealer and an employee of the health dept had to physically observe an actual disking in operation at least once a month during the months of operation. Its quite obvious we had problems with no show on the tractor/operator, last minute calls saying that the tractor wouldn't be running today etc, etc. There were times I got so Go_ Da_ _ mad at this entire operational situation --- its just lucky for me that I wasn't allowed to carry a weapon.

 

[dave1949]

While I was Director of EH(16 years) in Anchorage we had many pumpers because the majority of the population lived beyond public sewer and our ground conditions were not that favorable for on-site disposal. However, into every life a little sun must shine and in this case its a humorous story - at least it was for us in the health field. One of the large communication companies in Anchorage put their communication sub-stations in below ground "bunkers". And you know whats coming - the above ground entrance looked EXACTLY like a sewer manhole. The cost to the pumping company(beyond their insurance coverage) to affect repairs to that facility put them out of business. Can you imagine the first worker who opened the lid to that communication bunker after 1500 gal of raw sewage had been dumped. I had heard that the pumper exited the scene prior to the communication company arrival but they were to identify the guilty party thru some means. Needless to say, the entrances to below ground communication facilities were immediately & plainly identified.

Oh dear. Murphy has a Award plaque on the wall for that one. :laughing: That would be a mess.

Years ago a friend converted his basement oil furnace to gas, but didn't notify the oil company, and didn't remove the exterior fill pipe. You know the rest of the story.

 

[oldnslo]

I have a large Hog Farm near me. The world needs food and I would rather catch a faint whiff for 24 hrs once a year than to have neighbors for the other 364 days.

Sure wish more people would this that way. All to often a family has been farming for generations, town expands and due to the "smell" they are forced out of business. I would personally rather smell a little cow related BS that all the political BS generated today...

 

[jinman]

Jinman,
Domestic residential sewage is difficult to pin down. Normally solids will be only 0.1 to 0.75%(less than one percent) by volume. This is one of the reasons it is costly to treat - so much liquid to solid and once the liquid & solid are mixed the mixture must all receive treatment.

Yep! Our flushing water becomes part of the problem. From the picture I posted of the cattle pens, you can tell that cows don't flush.

BTW: Disposable diapers full of poop and kitty litter box scoops all end up at the landfills. If we all collected our solid waste and sent it off to the landfill, would that simplify sewage treatment or just bring to our attention a problem that exists and we choose to ignore?:confused3:

 

[MossRoad]

That's Human Bio-Solids ... and I'm almost too close for comfort.

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It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!

 

[MossRoad]

By the way, that's a hack of a tree you got that game camera mounted on Piney. :laughing:

 

[SPIKER]

It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!

Yep: The 50's Twilight the Aliens (non speaking tall silver ones) landed carrying big books, "How to Serve Man" turns out it was a cook book and hundreds of people went on the ships to go to the aliens home world to be "Pampered" lol Ended with I think it was Jack Klugman screaming at a port hole in the space craft "It's a Cook Book, it's a cook book!"

Locally back in July we drove thru a local area when they were spraying it onto fields :x man it was one of the worst stinks ever 90 degrees and no AC and for 5 miles stuck behind the dang truck that pulled out of the field directly in front of us to where I almost rear ended him... Finally got around the local city truck and farmer with one of the BIG spray rigs pulled up with his tank FULL splashing it all over the road, luckily that was just cow pond cleaning so bearable...

Mark