Picnicking by the side of the raw sewage plant

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Sunday, June 29, 2003 | Glenn May

[Willie Green]

All kinds of things turn up at sewage-treatment plants -- sometimes even picnickers.

About 300 people showed up Saturday for free food and tours of the sprawling array of scrubbers, tanks and ponds that clean the sewage of nearly 1 million people at the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority plant on the North Side.

[Willie Green]

The economy must really be in the dumpster if people are going on picnics at the local sewage plant.

[Willie Green]

The admission price at Kennywood must be too high, people are taking their kids to Alcosan for free 'burgers and dogs.

[IncPen]

I always enjoy your threads full of cheer.

This is the crappiest yet, but it was actually a good read.

[backhoe]

The plant I ran back in the 1970's was very pleasant to work in. Think of concrete and berm-walled lakes, acres & acres of them.

We used to say our sewage was purer than Ivory soap,which boasted 99 and 44/100ths percent pure... our raw input was 99.9% water- it was that other .1% that could get you...

[knarf]

"All kinds of things turn up at sewage-treatment plants -- sometimes even picnickers." "About 300 people showed up Saturday for free food and tours of the sprawling array of scrubbers, tanks and ponds that clean the sewage of nearly 1 million people at the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority plant on the North Side."

That's the biggest gripe I have about living in an area that has to have sewage treatment .... the amount of people that end up in the stuff.

[Mark was here]

I came across a web site once that explained that the "solid waste" that you flush down the potty only moves a foot or so down the pipe with each flush of water coming by. There must be a series of little piles in our pluming just waiting to be pushed along. This is interesting because we think that all the water that goes with a flush is enough to take the load all the way to the treatment plant.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Statement: "Picnicking by the side of the raw sewage plant."

Response: Sounds like trying to have a picnic at a public park in Los Angeles County, California.

[Old Professer]

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark...

[Willie Green]

And the caravan is on it's way
I can hear the merry gypsies play
Mama mama look at Emma Rose
She's a-playin with the radio
La, la, la, la...