Sewer Overflow
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DEEKAYPEE8569
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7Op86ox9g
Seriously.....if HH is on METCOM, it's very possible with all the snow melt. When I lived right behind the pump station in Piney Point; after a hurricane or spring thaw, they would run truckload after truckload of waste water out of there.
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DEEKAYPEE8569
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70,000 gallons.
I want to say I remember smelling something like a sewer within the past few days. Maybe it's not just HH.
Chris0nllyn
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http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0315/sanitary-sewer-overflow.html
To late to Pig that line now.
70,000 gallons.
Seems like a lot, but depending on the size of the Pump Station, that could be just minutes of overflow. Just 1 175HP pump pumps about 2,500 gpm (max, depending on the type of pump) . At that rate, 70,000 gallons would flow in 28 minutes. That's just 1 pump. Then factor in response time, set up time, etc.
Hank
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1 minute of Dookie or 28 minutes of Dookie, I don't care. Dookie is Dookie!
NorthBeachPerso
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That will be about a $50K fine from the State (MDE). Maybe more if the spill could have been avoided.
Hank
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Chris0nllyn
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Word.
But Metcom has over 230 miles of sewer pipe. Something is bound to break. Just the price we pay for having the luxury of water and sewer service coupled with limited budgets, mismanagement, bad asset management plans, or just plain ole' bad luck.
I remember a few years ago, a wall collapsed on a basin at a treatment plant. 850,000 million gallons spilled out of the tank.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/two-die-when-wall-falls-gatlinburg-sewage-treatmen
Hank
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Damn... Not 850k, but here is another 90 in Chuck County back in 2010
http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0...f-raw-sewage-spills-into-local-tributary.html
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Chris0nllyn
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I doubt it'll be that much.
You're used to that smell in North Beach....
Hopefully they included some odor control with the recent upgrade.
NorthBeachPerso
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You're used to that smell in North Beach....
That's Chesapeake Beach. You guys can't even tell the Towns apart.
NorthBeachPerso
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I doubt it'll be that much.
Hopefully they included some odor control with the recent upgrade.
It will be. When Doug Gansler became Attorney General he formed a whole new detachment of bright young environmental lawyers to do nothing but oversee the State's wastewater treatment plants. Those guys do nothing but write fines when the required spill report comes in. The standard for a small, less than 100 gallons, spill is $8K. The fines increase after that. No appeal process provided.
Hank
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Oh please. Like you can't smell it from where you are? Probably immune to it.
NorthBeachPerso
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What you're talking about is the marsh. Low tide and it smells real bad. We've been through this before, you and I.
Hank
my war
Well, it smells like Dookie and Dookie is Dookie.