RAW SEWAGE
Sewage treatment has come a long way in the last
fifty years or so. Advanced technologies have allowed for containment and
treatment of sewage on a societal scale. Cities have massive treatment plants
that can treat millions of gallons of raw sewage every day.
The shame of the matter is that the designs of these systems is plagued
with ill fated planning and design. The modern day sewers are still archaic
monstrosities of a generation gone bye. The sewage systems in most modern cities
and towns were designed side by side with the storm sewers. So when ever it
rains there is an overwhelming influx of runoff mixed with the sewage creating a
volume usually too great for the system to handle and thus the flood gates pop
open and the raw sewage along with the runoff gets diverted directly into the
creeks, streams, and rivers. Sadly enough some communities in order to cut
expense occasionally take short cuts and dispense with the undiluted raw sewage
during times when it doesn't need to due to poor design. Instead it is due to
poor judgment or lack of it.
Our sewage systems need to
be re-engineered through the planning departments of our cities and towns across
our land. New legislation needs to be passed in order to change these policies
of dilution of pollution, and the local politicians held accountable if they don't
take initiatives to correct or at least plan to correct these problems
Check out these links.
www.ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/faqs/safedrink/sewage.htm
www.seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_sewage.html
www.eco-web.com/index/index-2.5.html
www.seagrantnews.org/news/sewage.html
www.artrans.com/rmsg/water/septic.htm
