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'If white people were still here, this wouldn’t happen': the majority-Black town flooded with sewage (Illinois)
The Guardian ^ | 2-11-21 | Eric Lutz

Posted on 02/12/2021 12:39:54 PM PST by dynachrome

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To: deport

So meletonan makes you a good candidtate to live there. And a lack of meletonan makes a person want to avoid the place like the plague?


181 posted on 02/12/2021 3:05:10 PM PST by Ikeon (we fight not against flesh and blood. but forces of darkness the blind cannot see. )
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To: deport

The racial makeup of the city was 95.46% African American,
3.38% White, 0.13% Native American, 0.02% Pacific Islander,
0.13% from other races, and 0.87% from two or more races.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were
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I bet the 3.38% who are white are obese white women with red hair, freckles and hoop earrings...........


182 posted on 02/12/2021 3:08:38 PM PST by bort
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To: dynachrome
Centreville is prone to flooding. Its wastewater system, a combination of open drainage ditches and ageing underground pipes and pumps, feeds into networks from neighboring towns...Though Centreville was once a larger town, it has lost more than half its population and nearly all its white inhabitants since 1970.

Usually when towns lose an ethnic population it's a combination of factors. If a town is colonialized (to borrow a liberal word) the colonists can't expect those that were, to continue to support those that displace them.

Technically any plumbing up to and including the connection to the main, are the responsibility of the homeowner. Problems from that connection point onward is the responsibility of the utility, county or local. If the county or local is responsible, but bankrupt, and considering the land lies in a floodplain with no expectation of improvement in flooding, the solution is to either a) legislate that every landlord in the affected area equip every home with a composting toilet so there is no sewage flow into the wastewater system; or b) to exercise imminent domain, buy out the homeowners, condemn the affected parts of the town(s) and relocate renters.

183 posted on 02/12/2021 3:09:56 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: DoughtyOne

I know of one municipality that wouldn’t raise their water/sewer rates for YEARS, while the system was neglected. Neglected to the point that they were losing 300 gallons of water a minute and busted pipes had roots growing into them from vegetation 30 feet away.

Then they had to jack the rates way up to make repairs.

What they should have done is raised the rates gradually and done the repairs and maintenance instead of waiting years.


184 posted on 02/12/2021 3:14:48 PM PST by brianl703
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To: Unassuaged

SJW. Get back under your bridge. Apologies if this was sarcasm, next time add some context to give a clue.


185 posted on 02/12/2021 3:15:09 PM PST by SandwicheGuy (“Feels Up and Heels Up 2020”)
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To: aquila48
The town is all black, there are no evil white men keeping them down, how come they haven’t built their Wakanda?

I had to spit my coffee out when i read this.

186 posted on 02/12/2021 3:15:47 PM PST by Ikeon (we fight not against flesh and blood. but forces of darkness the blind cannot see. )
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To: dynachrome

Where are all the white women at!

187 posted on 02/12/2021 3:18:28 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: mylife
Clearly Whiteys fault.

That worked for Washington DC's Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry. He never accomplished anything (except to blame whitey), and was beloved by the black community; he kept getting re-elected until he had a problem with cocaine. Even then, he made it back to politics as a Council member. Worshiping constituents attended his funeral.


188 posted on 02/12/2021 3:19:03 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Republicans are the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism)
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To: dynachrome

“relying on donated shipments of bottled water”. Anyone see the problem here????


189 posted on 02/12/2021 3:20:41 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: COBOL2Java

B!tch set me up.

Now that’s a legacy.


190 posted on 02/12/2021 3:20:59 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: brianl703

I agree. Look, any business has to budget for improvements.

They take our rate payments, and spend every bit of it on
the day to day stuff.

It seems like they don’t invest in new equipment, or upkeep.

Their budget should have a percentage set aside for these
things. 5.00%, 15.00%, whatever it takes. Then as time
goes by, rates will be affected by market dynamics, but
it shouldn’t be a real hit like what faces this
community.


191 posted on 02/12/2021 3:24:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: carriage_hill

Certainly spreads pathogens, but I’m sure the Asians use it all the time.


192 posted on 02/12/2021 3:26:29 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: cdcdawg

“Empire of Dust”

YES!
Well worth the time.
1:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LSuZGlqL34

From IMDB
Overall this was an extremely entertaining film and hilarious throughout. We follow a Chinese man who is attempting to construct a 250+ km road in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The only thing he is equipped with is a bunch of inept African workers.


193 posted on 02/12/2021 3:29:16 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Maintaining and repair and routine overhauls, replacements of old items still working, are not things the majority of black folks place high importance on.

That's both ridiculous, and a rather disgusting thing to say. The citizens of a city - regardless of their skin color - aren't supposed to crawl into a sewer system and perform repairs themselves.

The obvious problem is that the tax base has collapsed, and they lack the tax base to pay to modernize/repair that sewer system. That can be tremendously exoensive. It says that much right in the article, and it is common sense as well.

194 posted on 02/12/2021 3:31:04 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: carriage_hill

Im a licensed sewage treatment plant operator and the tomatoes do grow azs big as cantaloupes around a sewage plant


195 posted on 02/12/2021 3:32:29 PM PST by Ikeon (we fight not against flesh and blood. but forces of darkness the blind cannot see. )
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

you are saying words i never said

maybe read other peoples’ comments to me to see the responses from people who do understand what i am saying


196 posted on 02/12/2021 3:34:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cdcdawg

If you have to explain your sarcasm; you’re doing it wrong. Or you don’t understand your audience.


197 posted on 02/12/2021 3:41:15 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: dynachrome

Centreville, IL. You’re lucky you don’t live in Centralia, PA!

My guess is, it’s because there’s only 5000 people in Centreville, so neither the local govt nor the county nor the state gives a fig. TPTB could put all of them in a single hi-rise in St. Louis and not even notice them ever again.


198 posted on 02/12/2021 3:42:53 PM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: mylife

Yeah, I was wondering about that too.

You would think that plants would love ground that’s full of poop. ?

Maybe it’s just too soggy and they need something drier. ?


199 posted on 02/12/2021 3:45:44 PM PST by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!)
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To: dynachrome

They live in a flood plain. People should not live in that part of Centreville.


200 posted on 02/12/2021 3:48:07 PM PST by steve8714
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