Sewer Office Hours Being Flushed.

I haven't been on the County Los Osos Wastewater Project website in ages, but for some reason went there tonight. Well, I guess since the decommissioning septic tanks part of the project was 80% complete a month ago - and more by now - this announcement was bound to happen - below is a copy and paste:

Questions? 

Representatives from the County are available to answer questions from residents and businesses regarding sewer lateral connections for their property, project costs and financial assistance, and answer any other issues related to the Los Osos Wastewater Project.

Meet with County staff during bi-weekly office hours at 2025 10th Street in Los Osos each Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.  The last day of bi-weekly office hours in Los Osos will be on Thursday, March 16, 2017.

Or; 

Contact the County at (805) 788-2759 or email rheaslet@co.slo.ca.us with comments or questions.

Or; 

 The Public Works Department office in San Luis Obispo is open Monday to Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.  The Public Works Department is located in Room 206 of the old Courthouse building, at 976 Osos Street, on the corner of Palm and Osos Streets in San Luis Obispo.

You can see the rest of the stuff on the page here:

http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/PW/LOWWP.htm

Poop Problem In Outer Space - Solved!

We may think that we had a poop problem here in Los Osos with our 40-odd year sewer war. But in outer space, real outer space, not just the outer space feeling we had from experiencing our sewer war, there is a different, and more deadly, challenge - battling poop in space - specifically, the poop inside of a space suit that must be worn for days at a time. 

NASA posed the question here:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-poop-challenge

The deadline to present an answer to the problem was December 20, 2016. The winner and runners-up were just announced:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/tech/nasa-space-poop-challenge-winner-announced-trnd/index.html

Another poop problem - SOLVED! (And thanks NASA, for the use of your photograph!)

London's Super Sewer

Look at this monster project, that will relieve the pollution that London is spewing into the Thames River! (NOT their drinking water source* like our water clean-up project was.) Did this project take 40 years of citizen angst and pushback to come to fruition? NO! The initial study began in 2001! 2001 people! Amazingly, from our frame of reference in Los Osos, their project started construction in 2016 and will take 7 to 8 years to complete. The cost is £4.2 billion in 2012 prices.

The informative videos off the link below are fascinating. What is it about sewer projects that brings out the most lovely musical accompaniments to their videos? Our sewer video musical score was lovely too!

I suggest that if you don't have time to watch all of the videos, set the option to "Autoplay next video"on the last video off the link - if you expand the videos (option on the bottom) to 5 years ago, I'm not so sure there is music as I found the sound on the really old ones to not operate. Listen to the music while you are clearing out your "In box" or something. Be sure to listen to the end on at least one of them to hear the adorable seagull squawk which moves across your speaker, left to right. 

https://vimeo.com/tideway

(This one is my first favorite: https://vimeo.com/176721510, and this one is my second favorite: https://vimeo.com/174194088)

(Don't you love the British spelling of tons? Tonnes! Much more fun, but confusing to know how to pronounce.)

* The Thames River IS a drinking water source, but upstream from London.