Aide: "Mayor, the rainwater is forcing us to release raw sewage *again*, should we divert emergency funds to the sewer separation project?"
Jean: ".......so second street car?"
Can I be a grump here and complain about paying $80 a month to MUD for sewer fee for the past 4 years for a sewer separation project that would avoid this per the EPA on major flooding but none of this mattered??
That fee could go away if any of our reps or Senators could ever get the project funded by the government, until then we're stuck paying the sewer fee until at least 2037, which is the current projected completion year.
As a plumber I can tell you that the sewer separation project is MUD's largest project in decades. They have to go neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block and it is a slow process. Try to grasp how big a deal it is that you have safe, drinkable water 24/7, 365 days a year, every year no matter what. My downtime with MUD has been crazy small, only losing water for a few hours when the main had to be repaired years back. We have it very good with MUD.
I’ll admit that Google failed me. I was lazy and didn’t calculate it myself and the first site had the conversion factor wrong. But the real one gets it to 92,416 million gallons per day which is 92,416,000,000 gallons. Or 92.4 billion gallons if you like that term better.
Basically due to all the water they can either release sewer water into the river or have it back up into customers homes/businesses or risk destroying the infrastructure
There's a lift station along the Missouri River that feeds sewage into the South Omaha water treatment plant. Crews can't safely reach it, so the only option is to discharge untreated sewage into the river.
The solution to pollution is dilution. Doing something like this on an emergency basis isn't going to really do anything. Poop isn't oil, it will break down and be eaten by bacteria, algae, and other microorganisms. We just need the emergency to end.
Do your part and poop in your backyard!
Sewer City is dumping a million gallons of untreated waste into the Missouri too.
Sioux City and Omaha both are dumping "roughly 1 million gallons" of untreated sewage, into the Missouri River, per day. According to the story.
South Dakota is dumping into tributaries as well. Sioux Falls has stopped, but it's likely still happening in Vermillion.
Good thing we're getting rid of the epa soon. That will make the problem disappear overnight because we won't actually track these things!
Aide: "Mayor, the rainwater is forcing us to release raw sewage *again*, should we divert emergency funds to the sewer separation project?" Jean: ".......so second street car?"
How much money does the sewer separation project need to make a meaningful improvement? Would the street car money move the ball.
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Can I be a grump here and complain about paying $80 a month to MUD for sewer fee for the past 4 years for a sewer separation project that would avoid this per the EPA on major flooding but none of this mattered??
You can be a grump all you want but that money does not go to MUD, it is collected for the city which is who runs the sewer system and treatment.
That fee could go away if any of our reps or Senators could ever get the project funded by the government, until then we're stuck paying the sewer fee until at least 2037, which is the current projected completion year.
As a plumber I can tell you that the sewer separation project is MUD's largest project in decades. They have to go neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block and it is a slow process. Try to grasp how big a deal it is that you have safe, drinkable water 24/7, 365 days a year, every year no matter what. My downtime with MUD has been crazy small, only losing water for a few hours when the main had to be repaired years back. We have it very good with MUD.
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I had to look, it’s $68. And I don’t know why it’s so high!!
Shitpost for not knowing WTF you are complaining about. FFS at least READ your damn bill and see who does what.
Literal shitpost.
The solution to pollution is dilution and there is lots of dilution going on in the Missouri River now.
FYI: River currently at 143,000 cfs which is roughly 77,000 million gallons per day.
I think your math is off
1 million gallons a day is about 1.5 cfs on average.
It might be a little low but it’s not far off
143,000 cubic feet is ~1,070,000 gallons. 1,070,000 gallons per second is WAY MORE than 77,000,000 million gallons per day.
I’ll admit that Google failed me. I was lazy and didn’t calculate it myself and the first site had the conversion factor wrong. But the real one gets it to 92,416 million gallons per day which is 92,416,000,000 gallons. Or 92.4 billion gallons if you like that term better.
I like money
Don't swim where you shit!
Hehe shitpost
Happy Cake Day!
100% for lack of knowledge. It’s on the damn bill. Reading is hard.
Can anyone eli5 what this actually means?
Basically due to all the water they can either release sewer water into the river or have it back up into customers homes/businesses or risk destroying the infrastructure
Why don't we have a city poop tank to store the excess for these trying times?
Not enough knives
That would be one heck of a tank to have laying around just in case
Would take a shitload of money.
Sounds like we have the shit part covered but not the money part.
I thought that was Carter Lake?
We already have a big poop storage area nearby, it's called "Fremont"
We actually just built one. It’s full
Shitter was full!
There's a lift station along the Missouri River that feeds sewage into the South Omaha water treatment plant. Crews can't safely reach it, so the only option is to discharge untreated sewage into the river.
The solution to pollution is dilution. Doing something like this on an emergency basis isn't going to really do anything. Poop isn't oil, it will break down and be eaten by bacteria, algae, and other microorganisms. We just need the emergency to end.
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This happens every time the river floods. Why? Is it an excuse to get rid of waste water?]