Getting fed up with hearing this

[joco]

collect them b.a....good for ice fishing.

where is that.?

there was somethin in the news 2 weeks ago a littl creek where the snow never did stay around the water or ice..weird colored water in that creek.


the worst thing is those news get stop..some people dont want those stuff to be said at all.



http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/08/ ... ml?ref=rss

http://www.ruralcouncil.ca/old-tech.htm

http://www.uottawa.ca/services/ehss/doc ... s%20EN.pdf

joco

[Mr. T.]

fact: Sewage is 99.9% water, think of it, flushing the toilet, showering, bathing mostly water.
Fact: Sewage is organic material and breaks down just as other organic material breaks down

so condom...tampons...all those medication is organic..? all soaps all kind off it.all the chemical that clean the toilet the bath etc that goes into the water is organic.

lput that 99.9 % pure water and put it in a bottle and ask them to drink it just abit..if its that pure.

anyway we can be describe its still tons off crap.sorry for the words but this is what it is.

one mm off bad liquid can contaminate 100.s off liter off water and more and more. so that 99.9%...

i am not saying anything to you..but you work there so you got a deferent perspective then other people.


i saw some power plant that dumps like 100 gallons off oil in the river in a week..the guys said no prob there is like millions gallon off water mix to it.....wow nice response..

but if we wll acumulate that stuff at the long run are river is gething toxicated.............


how come wen they test some water they find some medication concentration if its like 99.9% pure in that miliions off galoons there must be a lot in that 0.001%..


like i said again...one drop off bad stuff in your 99.9 pure become unpure in a instant,,


you would be suprise what people flush in toilets and what get flush in drains in some companys or drain in there drains..etc

oil/gas/chemical all kind/medication/acids/etc etc.


joco

Joco I think you should change your name to Erin Jocovich! JK

[New Kid]

Fact: Sewage is 99.9% water, think of it, flushing the toilet, showering, bathing mostly water.
Fact: Sewage is organic material and breaks down just as other organic material breaks down. Treatment just speeds up the same process that happens in nature with animal feces etc.

Guy's, I am a Water Treatment Plant Operator for the town of Perth.
Prior to this I worked in waste water as well. I have to agree with Smokercraft that this is not the enviromental disaster that its made out to be in the Ottawa media. Having said that, it's not desirable either, and I certainly understand why members here are not too happy about it. Fortunatly, the city of Ottawa does not produce the kind of industrial waste that other large centre's do. You guys should see the sewage effluent that is dumped into the North Saskatchewan River in the middle of Cow and Oil country.
It's not a problem that you can fix overnight unforutunatly. You have a combined sewage system (storm and sewer) and with the heavy rainfall over the past 1.5 years, it's just gotten overloaded. Unless the city engineers have come up with a reaonable quick fix, it will be a major undertaking to improve your system.

[Doeun_k]

There just busy investing there money on art and museums and not the wildlife and fisheries. Dont you know thats where are tax money goes?
A couple million on that spider art sculpture downtown and another couple upgrading another museum. Wonderful!

[smokercraft]

From what I understand, they are going to attempt to build big holding ponds or something to try and capture the overflows from heavy rain/melts and store it until the flow slows enough that they can release it back into the system.... Not sure how long it will take to get it done though. There is a lot involved. I realize that I have a different perspective but that is only because I see the facts about what is happening and am not geting all of my info from the public... Same case with the radiation they supposedly found in the biosolids being trucked to the U.S., turned out to be nothing, Border officials met with councillors, Nuclear guys and the city invited the media to sit in on it when it was told that it was a false alarm. The city asked the media to write about it and let people know, they declined. They said it didn't make good news. There you have it, goes to show you what you get out of the media. Joco I agree it is not clean water that overflows into the river, I am just saying it is not as bad as one would think. The Storm sewers that flow into all of our creeks, rivers, ponds etc EVERY rain or melting event is 1000 times more polluted than raw sewage could ever be. It is full of Garbage, salts, oils, greases, paints, you name it. Imagine the damage it is doing, it doesn't break down and is toxic to fish/wildlife. Sewage uis not toxic to wildlife, it is organic. Bacteria breaks it down. In a perfect world, nothing other than raindrops would go into our waterways, realistically it is not possible. The earth only has so much water, we are not gaining any.

[smokercraft]

When I say 99.9% water, i mean by volume... So if you had 1000 gallons of water, 1 gallon would be actual sewage. Doesn't look like it, but it is... Hopefully with technology etc, someday we can treat ALL the water and have it going back into the system cleaner than when it came out.

[joco]

thanks..smokercraft

good info there.

i just hope they do something not just talk about it.

its for futur generation the kids and there kids rivers its not are rivers.

water is everything for life.

so wen water become bad everything hesle is going the same way.

joco.

[smokercraft]

My thoughts exactly Joco, its time we start paying more attention to our waters and realize that it is not a never ending resource.... Some countries would give everything they have to have access to clean water. It seems like we take it for granted a lot of the time.

[Wallyboss]

When i drill 10 holes while ice fishing and within 10 minutes there is floating pieces of toilet paper in all the holes, I consider that a problem.

Not too keen on keeping walleyes when that happens.


We are more in need of having clean water than Light Rail train if you ask me!!!!!! They are talking about 5 Billions for the Light rail. that could help cleaning the sewers. They might have spent half of it already in late fees and studies.