"San Luis Obispo County Supervisors approved a contract to install some new equipment at the Los Osos Wastewater Treatment Plant; gizmos designed to better control the pressure inside the plant’s discharge lines and extend their useful lives."
Read all about it here in the Estero Bay News!
https://esterobaynews.com/news/new-regulators-slated-at-los-osos-treatment-plant/
(I am a fangirl of Neil Farrell who has written another super article!)
How did I not know about this? I was noodling around looking for reference items for my sewer book that I am slowly plodding along on, and in googling for the habitat of this moth (yes, the moth is sewer related) ------
-------- I found this: https://flushitblog.wordpress.com/ !!!!!!!!!!
Here is a whole, new, wonderful world of sewers! I, and I hope you - my one reader (are you still there?) will take a look and enjoy the many, fascinating postings here!
I tried to find out something about the author, but probably on purpose, and I do understand why (how many of us write about this instead of the latest TikTok phenom I wonder....), I only found this:
About me: I am the current chair of the Environmental Protection Technology program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. For my PhD I looked at how pollutants and nutrients from fertilizers and manure traveled through farm soils with tile drainage. Well, one thing led to another.
Yes, I surely get that "one thing led to another" thing...
I was shocked to find this posting today from
Municipal Sewer & Water Magazine!
"Federal Agencies Release Cyber Incident Response Guide for Water/Wastewater Systems"
But then I realized that a dinky outpost like our sewer (and our three dinky water companies) probably would not be the most likely places to waste attack resources and I felt better.
Well, one can read all about it here:
The four stages of the incident response lifecycle are:
* Preparation
* Detection and analysis
* Containment, eradication and recovery
* Post-incident activities
The government website to get the detailed scoop is here:
Read about it, and note the photo of the leach field piping - I photo that I have never seen!
"In this case study from Los Osos, California, a decentralized solution from Delta Treatment Systems addresses saltwater intrusion while facilitating aquifer recharge."
https://downloads.regulations.gov/FWS-R8-ES-2019-0025-0004/attachment_7.pdf
I nabbed this image below from Google Earth, which is flipped from the image above:
Have a look at the Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility in the City of Spokane, Washington!
Our plant is dinky compared to this plant for an obvious reason: Los Osos population - 14,465; Spokane population - 228,989.
And maybe I am prejudiced, but I think our plant is a lot cooler! Have you visited our plant's page lately? If not, here you go:
I hope some enterprising person will do a video of ours someday....
