Posted on 02/28/2011 6:33:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
San Francisco's big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink.
Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission. That has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park and elsewhere, especially during the dry summer months.
The city has already spent $100 million over the past five years to upgrade its sewer system and sewage plants, in part to combat the odor problem.
Now officials are stocking up on a $14 million, three-year supply of highly concentrated sodium hypochlorite - better known as bleach - to act as an odor eater and to disinfect the city's treated water before it's dumped into the bay. It will also be used to sanitize drinking water.
That translates into 8.5 million pounds of bleach either being poured down city drains or into the drinking water supply every year.
Not everybody thinks it's a good idea.
A Don't Bleach Our Bay alert has just gone out from eco-blogger Adam Lowry who argues the city would be much better off using a disinfectant like hydrogen peroxide - or better yet, a solution that would naturally break down the bacteria.
As for whether the supposedly environmentally friendly, low-flow toilets are worth the trouble? Well, according to Jue, they have helped trim San Francisco's annual water consumption by about 20 million gallons.
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The stench isn’t because SF sewer is full of $hit, it’s because SF full of libs.
Oh lord! That was the worst detail ever.
Flushing Maddows
...an EXCELLENT point.
Cholera, anyone?
I find it interesting that he says Sodium hypochlorite will be used to sanitize drinking water. Nothing new. What is strange is that they plan to use more???? Water quality standards set a range of residual disinfectant concentration in potable water. Put too much of that stuff in the potable water and they will violate water quality standards. Someone is clueless.
Heh heh - good ole Sodom-by-the-Bay...
Rotting from within...
I miss that show....
My own beautiful city has been virtually reduced to ruble. Most of the Midwest cities are nightmares of crime and poverty. Full of the effluence of the Liberal dream. Los Angeles, is a third World nightmare complete with their own version of favelas and multimillionaire compounds. The middle class is relegated to the extreme outskirts, content to spend hundreds of hours a year commuting to do the business of both the poor and wealthy classes.
Chicago's South side has become so dangerous, even Barack wouldn't rabble rouse there.
Detroit, Buffalo, St. Louis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Memphis, Kansas City, You name the Democrat city and you will find all the Sh17 you need without delving into the sewers. They clog the streets and the bureaucracy equally.
If there ever was a time for schadenfreude, this is it.
BaWOOOSH!!!!
`Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.`
No.
Once again proving liberalism is a mental disease.
A Penny Saved is a Fanny Burned
And that shit floats to the top.
Anyone remember that ditty about the old woman who swallowed a fly? Cute song. Bad public policy.
I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And dog-gone it, I use a composting toilet.
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