Posted on 03/02/2011 2:46:52 PM PST by JoeA
That pungent aroma wafting over the beautiful city by the bay isn’t merely the stench of its leftist political climate, but a tangible result of those wrong-headed policies. A spokesman for the city’s Public Utilities Commission, Tyrone Jue, has said that a rotten egg smell emanating from its sewers has cost taxpayers over $100 million in the past five years, as the city has upgraded its treatment plants and sewer system to eliminate the smell. And the cause of the problem? Sludge backing up in waste pipes left by low-flow environmentally friendly oh-so green toilets forced on the public by local politicians and the federal government.
Having first created a water shortage by refusing to build new reservoirs to meet the needs of a growing population, environmentalists pointed to the shortage as prima facie evidence of the need to cut water consumption, hence toilets that used half as much water. And now, to solve the problem created by toilets that don’t do what Thomas Crapper intended, the city is planning to dump 8.5 million gallons of bleach into its sewers, at an additional cost of $14 million. As the law of unintended consequences continues to roll down the hill, environmental groups have already begun to protest the use of concentrated sodium hypochlorite (bleach).
The city claims, in its defense, that the low flow toilets have saved 20 million gallons of water a year, which sounds impressive until one does some research and puts pencil to paper. According to the Public Utilities Commission, San Franciscans’ residential annual water sales, expressed in Millions of Gallons Per Day, is 45.64. That works out to 16,658,600,000 per year. Over sixteen and a half billion gallons per year. So a savings of twenty million gallons per year is only twelve hundredths of a percent (0.12%). That’s $5.70 per gallon of water saved, even more than the current price of gasoline. Not to worry, though, they’re working on solving that problem, too, as any visit to a gas station will show. But that’s another story.
Smell the schadenfreude.
It sucks too
How many decades have we known this?
Yeah - and it smells bad too!
The Liberals have progressed back to the Dark Ages.
Yeah, and it smells bad, too.
There is certainly a bit of a poetic justice here somewhere...
They clearly have not thought this through.
The Congress was ery pleased with itself when it bought into the low-flow toilet nonsense!! Now, San Fran (and most other metropolitan areas in the US) are paying the price of foolishness!!
This is why politicians should NEVER be allowed to stray outside their Constitutional boundaries.n They are clueless to the max. They are so clueless that clueless people could teach them new things!!
I have one of those government monstroties and I flush it twice....every time
I was thinking the same thinking. This may require popcorn . . . .
The two substances do not mix well.
They, of course, got dystopia, not utopia.
Can a water treatment plant remove the bleach in the water?
“They clearly have not thought this through”
You mean ultra-liberal, progressive city planners and city government officials have not thought it through? Surely you jest.
/sarc off
I mixed bleach and ammonia once.
Once.
I mixed bleach and ammonia once.
Once.
But I posted it twice.
Prostitucians “fixing” things.
The same thing happened in NYC. City ordered replacement of good old toilets with water saving cheap crap toilets. The result? You have to flush it twice for #2 to send the sheeet down to magnificent sewer authority.
Numerous leaks and damage from leaks.
But idiots can feel good with green toilet transformation.
Vote the bastRATs out!!!
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