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Study finds septic tanks don't keep poo out of our water
Newser via Fox News ^
| 08.04.2015
| Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
Posted on 08/04/2015 1:26:09 PM PDT by dware
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We obviously need better septic tank control...
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:26:09 PM PDT
by
dware
To: dware
so that’s what’s wrong with Detroit...
To: dware
"sample after sample" shows bacterial concentrations are "highest where there were higher numbers of septic systems in the watershed area,"
Well there's a shocker.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:29:34 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: dware
Or as Joycelyn Elders might say,
we just need safer sh!t.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:31:48 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Voting is acting white.)
To: dware
If it weren’t for bacteria, none of us exist.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:33:30 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: dware
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:33:44 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: dware
This study to be followed by an Executive Order banning or at least restricting bowel movements and placing all bowel movements under the control of the EPA!
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:36:35 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
...no...but...it might give them the impetus to begin to insist on septic systems which are much more involved, expensive and impose burdens on people living in the exurbs, suburbs and rural areas.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:39:06 PM PDT
by
MSF BU
(Support the troops: Join Them.)
To: dware
Correlation does not equal causation.
There are also a lot of larger parcels such as farms with associated livestock, fowl and such in areas where there are a lot of septic systems.
A properly functioning septic tank and drainfield system does not discharge ANY water (directly to streams and ricers
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:40:06 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: WayneS
“...any water directly to streams and rivers.”
Proofreading is my friend...
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:41:36 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: WayneS
There are also a lot of larger parcels such as farms with associated livestock, fowl and such in areas where there are a lot of septic systems. There are also a lot of "fake" septic systems in areas with a lot of septic systems. What's a fake system, one where the out pipe runs directly down to the river or other open waste area.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:43:18 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: dware
Howard Hughes is very afraid.
Wait, he’s dead.
See how toxic a tiny amount of poop is?
Now, if it were Cecil the Zebra eating lion’s poop it would be healing and sacred.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:43:49 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: cripplecreek
"sample after sample" What a crappy job.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:43:58 PM PDT
by
dware
(Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
To: dware
Too many hunters afield ?
Too many ferals in the streets ?
To: dware
New expensive septic system rules or mandatory hookup to a town sewer line coming soon to your area.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:44:15 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: dware
Here’s how it works, poop in the toilet, flush said toilet, waste goes down the pipe to the septic tank, solids (poop and toilet paper)settle to the bottom of the septic tank and waste water flows out of upper tank pipe to drain field, wastewater in perforated drain pipe leaches into drain rock and is filtered by soil.
If you are have high groundwater then wastewater is not getting filtered before it hits natural groundwater. Presto-bingo, you have contaminated water.
The EPA and state ecology departments will step in sometime in the near future and outlaw all septic disposal systems because the groundwater is consider “waters of the state”. This is in direct violation of the new Clean Water Act rules.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:45:41 PM PDT
by
shotgun
To: BitWielder1
For each Poo, you must disperse it across a hundred acre wood.
Oh bother.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:46:35 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: dware
The grass is greenest and thickest over the area of my septic tank leeching field. No, I do not have my vegetable garden there!
To: shotgun
When we lived in the country we had a septic system and a water well. Our water well was about 100 feet deep. Could that have been a problem?
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:51:18 PM PDT
by
Ditter
( God Bless Texas!)
To: Kartographer
Yeah there is some history here. Both those who would like to put meters on our private wells and those who would like to impose bi-annual septic system inspections.
Western water issues get the attention but there is no greater jewel than the great lakes in the eyes of the Agenda21 crowd. And Michigan is its heart.
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posted on
08/04/2015 1:51:37 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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