February Project Report Online

Check out the latest report on our sewer project from John Waddell! You can find it at this link:

http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assets/PW/LOWWP/document+library/PM+Monthy+Update+Feb2013.pdf

If you missed reading the January report, you can find it at this link:

http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assets/PW/LOWWP/document+library/PM+Monthly+Update+Jan.+2013.pdf

Happy reading!

Dig LO Announces Part of LOVR Complete!

Good news from Dig Los Osos this evening! The sewer lines on Los Osos Valley Road from 9th Street to Alexander Avenue are finished! Please read about the details at this link:

http://www.diglososos.com/2013/03/22/portion-of-los-osos-valley-road-finished/

Granted, navigating around and through the construction areas takes patience. But the equipment and trenches will eventually vanish, leaving us with roads smoother than many of us have ever seen them and unhappy septic tank issues that will never again surface.

Broderson Leach Field Demystified!

Dig Los Osos has a new post on what is happening at Broderson. It is a great place to hike and looks like it will continue to be be so, just a couple of trail re-routes! The article also gives a schedule for work.

The link to the article is here and the link to their map is here, in case you want to go straight to the map first. It takes a moment or two to load the map and scroll down to see the plant list! Especially edifying is the huge removal of the dreaded and icky Veldt grass (Ehrharta calycina). You can read more about that ghastly grass here:

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21574

Two New Things From Dig Los Osos And One Is AMAZING!

The latest from Dig Los Osos is a progress report on how the project is progressing, which can be accessed here:

http://www.diglososos.com/2013/03/06/update-on-work-around-town/

And the AMAZING part is the new interactive map! Click on your street to see when the construction is due to begin, or any other part of town that you are curious about. This is really a cool feature to keep us all in the loop!

The link to the interactive map comes off of the Traffic Update Map (http://www.diglososos.com/traffic-update/) and can be found at this link:

https://gisapps.hdrprojects.com/LosOsos/index.html

The scrolling wheel on my mouse expands and shrinks the map area, but the bar on the left with the plus and minus signs will do the same thing. Click on the area where your house is on your street to find out when the construction will start! Have fun!

Festival Has A Water Bar!

Los Angeles sewer system water, Lake Arrowhead water, Mt. Shasta water, Pacific Ocean water, Colorado River water, hot springs water, rain water—all featured at the water bar at the Oasis! One of the venues at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival!

Really, with as unique a story as Los Osos has, couldn't we do something equally wacky to help people understand water issues and innovations for the future?

Check out these links:

http://www.coachella.com/festival-info/sustainability#c-tab3

http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/03/coachella-2013-water-lineup/

The dates for the festival are April 12-14 and 19-21, 2013.

What Our Little Sewer Will Never Be.....

........is like any of these on the link below. Sewer aficionados, take a brief tour of what large metropolitan sewers look like. Amazingly, I found this on the weather.com page:

http://www.weather.com/travel/sewer-tours-20130304?pageno=1

I especially enjoyed the second set of photos, (which seem to be accessed from the article below the first set of photos), which are of the Paris sewer museum (Musee des Egouts de Paris). Lovely, GQ-quality sewer worker mannequins! (The museum sells toy rats. Wish we could think of an angle for tourism and income like that......)

See their site at this link:

http://www.parismuseumpass.com/musee-musee-des-egouts-de-paris-23.htm

Be glad we don't have smell-o-vision on our computers! Enjoy!

Rather Sculptural

The scale of these machines about town and the angularity of the parts remind me of sculptural forms (and sometimes giant insects).