- 21. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:30:37 -0400
- Not bored, but interested. Sewers are cool. I'm perfectly happy to let others keep them working though. The college I went to had a large undeveloped piece of scrubby woodlands behind it. It had larg
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- 22. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:09:52 -0800
- Yeah, me too. Especially since it was less than a 20' run, and the only obstacle is the concrete driveway. But they did offer a 10% discount if I would commit within 48 hours <G> And after some dick
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- 23. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: pethier@comcast.net
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:24:30 +0000
- Without the driveway work, it should have come in around $2000. If you decide to consider it, get bids from everybody with a license. -- Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA 1962 Triumph TR
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- 24. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: "John T. Blair" <jblair1948@cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:40:13 -0500
- I think here these are called French wells or dry wells. To get the water down through our clay layer. John John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair1948@cox.net Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229 48 TR180
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- 25. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: pethier@comcast.net
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:11:21 +0000
- Not the same thing. A "French Drain" or a "Drywell" is a hole into which water goes to percolate into the soil. A sandrock sewer is an actual sewer. Sanitary sandrocks here carry effluent which event
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- 26. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: Steven Trovato <strovato@optonline.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:16:43 -0400
- This is interesting, because New York City's system is still combined. A heavy rain routinely overloads the system and discharges raw sewage into the environment. http://riverkeeper.org/campaign.php/
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- 27. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Gingerich" <bill@gingerich.us>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:37:18 -0500
- In the late '70's I worked for a company that made equipment for sewage treatment plants. One of the things I discovered was that most people don't digest tomato seeds. They just pass through. And if
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- 28. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: Steven Trovato <strovato@optonline.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:59:15 -0400
- Seems like the septic/sewer business has some of the best slogans. I guess you have to have a sense of humor. I saw a septic truck that said "This truck carries only American made products". ________
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- 29. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: pethier@comcast.net
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:17:38 +0000
- Yes, this is what Saint Paul was doing before we separating our sewers. Sewage crossed dams called "regulators" or "diversions" from combined sewers to storm sewers when the sewers were overcharged i
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- 30. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:33:12 -0400
- The milwaukee sewerage people have some pictures of their tunnels, diagrams and so on, on their website /wastewatertreatment/project_northwest_side_deep_tunnel.cfm -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.co
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- 31. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Lye <mlye@risd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:26:28 -0400
- This topic has had a much longer life than I expected but It's been an interesting read. In addition to the cities mentioned by Phil, Providence RI is doing this same thing right now. The digging of
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- 32. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:46:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Chicago also has peregrine falcons, but unlike other cities mentioned, we still use our river as a toilet. In fact, there's a drain immediately underneath the dock where I board the Water Taxi everyd
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- 33. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:45:12 -0400
- The Chicago area is in the process of spending a lot of money (something on the order of $10 billion, over 30 or 40 years) to build a bunch of large tunnels to hold the water. The first stage, about
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- 34. Re: [Shop-talk] plumping question (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Frerichs" <shoptalk@centipi.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:43:12 -0500
- This has been in the news a little bit lately in Omaha also since our sewage system just dumps into the Missouri River when storms cause it to overrun. I don't remember the exact numbers, but probabl
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