Reference Documents

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Sewer's Farm Road

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/4000000030541157

Yeah, I know.....how do they mean "sewer?" One who sews with needle and thread, or are they honoring a construction which one flushes into, which happens to be on a farm road - a sewer plant shoved out of town maybe (sound familiar Los Osians)? The town apparently named Abinger Bottom 😐........and it is in the Mole Valley, you know, underground tunnels. Well, this is yet another British Mystery! Perhaps a future someone in the know will leave a clarifying comment?

Thursday, September 13, 2018

The Woeful World Of Wipes

Yes, it's been a while. I have been very engaged in writing on the local Los Osos Nextdoor which includes parts of Morro Bay. They are going through a sewer war, and I have been providing some Los Osos sewer background of what they don't want to do, namely, vote NO and change locations.

Happily, they did pass their 218 vote Tuesday evening to move on ahead with their WRF, Water Recycling Facility. Note the wording difference; ours was/is called the Los Osos Waste Water Project, LOWWP. We are recycling water too, but we sound a little more old school. Well, since our plant started back in the cave man days, I guess it would, but these days recycled water is a lot more hip of a term than "waste water." It sure sounds better anyway. The idea of wasting water is firmly brain ingrained as a no-no in Los Osos. But I digress.

I subscribe to a newsletter from the wastewater industry, TPO, for Treatment Plant Operator. Since I have written on wipes in the past, I thought I would update you all (who are not in the industry) on how the problem has been combatted in this modern age. So have a look and get educated. This grinder thinger doodle looks to be able to take care of even the false teeth that occasionally wind up at wastewater treatment plants—I mean water reclamation plants!
https://www.tpomag.com/online_exclusives/2018/09/wipes-arent-going-away_sc_003ey?utm_source=campaigner&utm_campaign=180912&utm_content=newsletter&cmp=1&utm_medium=email