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Sewage (was Acid Cleaning) (long and off-topic)

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Subject: Sewage (was Acid Cleaning) (long and off-topic)
From: Randall Young <ryoung@NAVCOMTECH.COM>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:26:58 -0800
Don Tiana wrote :
>
> Here in So. Cal. (L.A. area) we aren't that much different
> than some of our neighbors south of the border. We send
> all our sewage (supposably after it's been treated) right
> out into the Pacific Ocean, umm yum, anybody game for
> going surfing? or maybe fishing off Santa Monica Pier?

Well, what else would you do with treated effluent ?  Drink it ?  Grow food
with it ?  I think not ...

BTW, I live in So CA, and my sewage goes to the city of Long Beach, where it
gets treated and at least part of the effluent is used to irrigate parks and
city-owned lawns.  It is actually quite clean and sterile (looks and smells
better than what comes out of my faucet), but is considered non-potable
because of trace amounts of heavy metals in it, and of course the danger
that a failure of some sort could cause it to be contaminated.  As someone
already mentioned, the standards for effluent are actually higher than those
for drinking water ...

IMO Topanga, like much of that area, has two problems :
1) Some storm sewers drain into the septic sewer system.  Every time it
rains hard, the treatment plant gets overloaded.  Fortunately, it doesn't
rain hard very often here.
2) Population growth was very poorly controlled in the 80's and 90's.
Sewage treatment plants were not upgraded/built to match the vast increase
in input.

It's a funny thing, people yell and scream when you tell them "If you want
to live here, you'll have to help pay for a new multi-billion dollar sewage
treatment plant".  But then, after the govt gives in and lets them move in
anyway, everyone bitches about the logical result.

Randall
Lakewood, CA - not fancy, but designed to be a 'bedroom' community

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