'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

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

All the area from E. St. Louis to Centreville should be nuked from space. More crime, Democrat Party incompetence, corruption, social disorder, etc.

I feel sorry for the good people of Centreville but they have got to clean up their own politicians and city officials/workers.

Let’s see if the Biden EPA does anything about it I spent 28 years (minus some time off for work on an Organized Crime Task Force and a terrorism case), helping to clean up the environment, esp. Superfund toxic waste sites. Our teams were non-political, dedicated DOJ and some EPA officials, plus competent contractors. It can be done right the first time.

[Graybeard58]

Not in Human Poop. Only in specific Animal Poop. I’m a Horticulturalist, and have done the trials. Human Poop is far to toxic
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I was in southern Missouri during and after their flood, I think it was 2011. It was not the smell of poop that was in the air, homes and soil, it was the smell of diesel and gasoline and adversely affected gardens and crops for a couple of years.

[SERE_DOC]

Lyda Krewson is an American Democratic politician,

Oddly they left that tidbit out of the article.

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[Carriage Hill]

Those are definitely poisons to any plant life, except some algae which consume them, and are used to help clean-up oil spills in the ocean.

[Wonder Warthog]

"They have little or no tax base, their elected officials are hopelessly amd shamelessly corrupt, and they won't lift a finger to help themselves and maintain their community. And of course they're entirely shameless about blaming everyone but themselves."

Gee...that sounds astoundingly like every black-ruled nation in Africa.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I agree about sewers being funded by user fees, but the same problem will arise eventually if you have a declining population. You'll have a larger system that requires more maintenance money, but the population won't be paying enough fees to finance it. That's also true if you lose businesses that were heavy users of water/payers of fees. You essentially have miles of sewer lines without enough people to pay for their upkeep.

What is really needed in those cases is a scaled-down, more modernized system, but they lack the money to do that. Don't really know how to fix that, though, since it isn't fair for other people living in other municipalities or locations to pay for sewer systems in other places.

[Graybeard58]

She probably meant to say “Nobody never fixes nothing”.

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Ain’t never been no nobody not like me. Mohammud Ali.

[SaraJohnson]

She can move like all the taxpayers did.

[Pining_4_TX]

That income does not include all the government benefits they receive, nor does it count money make in illegal or underground activities. If someone provided you with food, shelter, utilities, school for the kiddies (even if it is awful), the unearned tax credit, and even a free phone, then $15000 would keep you in video games and Nike shoes.

[Pining_4_TX]

The black national anthem is really “Carry Me Back to Ol’ Wakanda”.

[Pining_4_TX]

You can’t help people who won’t do anything to help themselves but always look for others to solve their problems and support them.