They're liberals. Trying to defy the laws of Physics and Science is part of the job description
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.
It’s those damned chickens again.
I have a daughter that still lives there loves the city but keeps saying it is so hard to live there. Sad how time changes things. San Francisco at one time a jewel, now and stink hole.
They're liberals. Trying to defy the laws of Physics and Science is part of the job description
Perfect outcome for a city run by liberal shit-for-brains politicians.
The real problem is the combined sewer system, sewage and storm water. Smells will always emanate from sewage but most sewer systems are closed except at stand pipes that vent overhead into the atmosphere.
I live across the bay. We do not have a combined system and we don’t have odor problems related to low flows.
SF has an open sewer system to allow storm water to flow into it. The smell is coming from the storm drains which are connected to the sewer system.
Yes and wastewater plants do it every day after using sodium hypochlorite to disinfect their final effluent. Several sulfur based chemicals can do the job.
They are so busy saving a two inch fish they can’t see the destruction in their wake. We just flush two to three times, so much for saving anything. Last time I was in SF, it was the crazies they let out on the street (SF passed a law that lets the homeless roam the streets) that added to the stench around 4th and Market St. Used to be the homeless played guitar or sax and had a case out for tips or sat quietly up against a storefront. Now the crazies actually follow you and scream at you and demand a dollar.
Not going back anytime soon.
8.5 million gallons of bleach?
That is certainly not a green thing to do.
Why isn’t the city council proposing dumping 8.5 million gallons of Rid-X into the sewers instead? Much more green and costly thing to do.
Eco-freak laws for thee, but not for me.
Was it a good batch of mustard gas?
That was before the open faggot rebellion took over.
“BeeepBeeepBeeep BeepBeep This is the San Francisco Emergency Flush System (EFS). Here is Mayor Edwin M. Lee. ‘My fellow sewer stinkers; San Francisco has a problem, and it smells. After close consultation with former mayor Gavin Newsom (code name BIG TURD)I have initiated PLAN CRAPPER. At noon today, all San Franciscans will rush to the nearest toilet and push the handle. We feel this massive release of water will remove all the unpleasant odors from our environment. Hawaii, however, will be in a fix as this tsunami of turds barrels their way covering Waikiki with California pee. That is all.”
Older cities are more prone to have combined sewers.
Yes it was. I had to air out the house for hours.
If they took more showers, this wouldn’t happen.
Why anyone would ever think SF is a desirable place to visit, let alone live, is beyond me. It is a dirty, crowded, crappy city...and now it smells like one.
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