Posted on 09/23/2020 9:48:36 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
Yeah I don’t get it. Florida gets heaps of rain too. City better get it together!
Dem governors orders now require flush-meters to be installed on all residential commodes.
Personally, I miss the good old days of straight piping directly into the creek.
Even in Florida, sewer systems are local in nature. As for Sanford, it resides on the shore of Lake Monroe, a large body of water that is the head of navigation for the St. Johns river. Although Sanford has an elevation of some 35 feet or so above sea level, I have seen a hurricane swollen Lake Monroe overflow its banks to flood many of downtown Sanford’s streets. The current problem is the more frequent one of Florida’s tendency toward heavy thunderstorms.
I’ve sailed on Lake Monroe and the St Johns. Learned to sail on Lake Jessup. After an hour, they guy teaching me told me about it being the most gator infested body of water in FL.(but no pressure LOL)
I lived in Orange/Seminole counties for 25 years and have seen the flooding, pretty much everywhere. The water table is only a few feet down and the more surface you cover with concrete, the less chance water has to soak in. Only so much can soak in with a high water table like that anyway. Most jurisdictions are now requiring retention ponds for any sizable project. In one area I lived, any septic tank that needed to be replaced would have to be raised up and an affluent pump used to pump your sewage up to it. Most had to do it in their front yard. They would try to landscape it but it still looked odd.
That was pushed in So. Cal. back in the '70s. People conserved so much water the utilities complained of lower revenue - so they raised the rates.
Sign in a So. Cal. men's room: "Flush twice, it's a long way to LA".
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