Posted on 02/15/2008 8:10:48 AM PST by ThinkingBuddha
“Crazy Amish at it again - what next?”
They might even get cell phones!
“Crazy Amish at it again - what next?”
They might even get cell phones!
Oh s@#t.
What exactly is against their religious belief? Dumping their sewage on other people’s property? Or are they being told to install an electric toilet?
This doesn’t sound like a representative Amish person to me.
I wonder what these people think the Animals in the area are doing? Is human waste more toxic to ground water than pigs, cows and sheep ?
LOL Some of them already have them, teenage girls in particular. At least they do here in Ohio.
:-)
actually yes. human waste isn’t used as fertilizer because, i’v always been told, it contaminates.
I had exactly the same question. In central Nevada, there’s still all sorts of outhouses, some still in use on remote ranches.
Never saw one of them that just up and grew from the surrounding sagebrush.
ps — the WPA-made outhouses from the 1930’s were vastly over-engineered and are still around. Quite the bit of construction - most of them were two or four holers.
I KNEW it! And they probably have a crescent on the outhouse door. Where’s homeland security on this?
I agree with you there, they probably aren’t contaminating anything. Just like the lagoons some folks in the country flush their waste into. Nature cleanses, it’s dealt with by the ecosystem. Flush toilets are a pretty recent invention.
Google: Thomas Crapper
They could easily revert.
I was thinking that there might be more to this also. In Texas, we have been under attack for about a decade now. There is almost no land that I know of that you can buy here now that will pass the "perc" test. People pay much extra for a "grandfathered" septic system. All raw lands with no septic must have the new aerobic systems. It seems the perc tests always fail, the inspector is always the brother in law of the guy that inspects the aerobic systems every year for $300, and the installer is somebodies cousin. If you try to fight it, they always start to accuse you of fouling the groundwater. If you have 20 acres and your well is 400 ft from the septic, that just doesn't seem good enough. Used to be the well would be just a few yards from the septic and that was ok for 200 years, now they start talking of fouling water tables miles away.
It's about money and control, not pollution.
I used to live in the northern part of Lancaster County. You got used to the smell of manure & only really noticed it when it was freshly spread (like during the late winter/early spring when they were getting ready to turn the soil. The thing that I really never got used to were the flies.
If the community forces the issue the Amish will 'adjust'. They always do.
They do refrigerate their raw milk on-site until the dairy truck pumps them out. They use diesel generators to create their own electricity for this. So you see the prohibition is not "no electricity", but has become "no utilities". Al Gore would love this.
Another 'adjustment' is the orange triangles & flashers on the backs of their black buggies. Lead Acid batteries on a horse-drawn buggie? Where are they recharging those? Those clandestine diesel generators I expect.
Yeah, the firm from which our sewage enforcement officer comes is only prohibited from doing business within the township. ‘Course he has a nice little ping-pong game going on with the neighboring township enforcement officer, and so on...
A guy I worked with some years ago bought a small farm. After a about a month he stopped showing up for work. When I saw him I ask why. As it turns out the farm he bought needed a new well drilled. The site of the new well just happened to be the site of an outhouse that had been removed and been covered over. The new well was drilled through the pit. He and his whole family came close to dying from the pollution.
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