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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Triple Hit - Recycled Water Hook-Up!!

Today the recycled wastewater from our treatment plant got a new home! I can't recall what I signed up for to get the invite, but it came via email two weeks ago.

You can see three new water spots above -  Los Osos Middle School (LOMS), Monarch Grove Elementary School, AND our community park!!

There were two videographers - KSBY and the County guy who will upload his videos to the County website and social media. Here's a link to KSBY:

https://www.ksby.com/los-osos/los-osos-turns-on-the-tap-at-three-new-recycled-water-sites Attendees (and some were speakers) included Supervisor Bruce Gibson, LOCSD GM Ron Munds, BMC's Dan Heimel, Kate Ballantyne (maven at the last recycled ribbon cutting https://losewersaga.blogspot.com/2019/08/valve-turning-ceremony-today.html ) Mladen Bandov - remember him at the Water Resources Advisory Committee, Francesca Devlin (she sent the email), and many more! 

Purple pipe will have to wait for Baywood Elementary School. They are doing a major remodel and when all that construction is over, they'll get theirs.

Three speakers - Supervisor Bruce Gibson, seated, left; Ryan Pinkerton, School District; and at the podium, Ron Munds, the LOCSD General Manager.


Ribbon cutting was done twice - here's Bruce, first up. The scissors were dull, the ribbon tough. It was kind of hilarious! There was a second cutting - same problem - with a (County? Construction?) guy whose name I did not get.

And there were those purple glazed donuts! You know - purple pipe!


Yes,I have not posted for a while. It's been kinda quiet on the sewer front!

Here's a map of where the recycled water is going:


Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Poop Drones

 

Yeah, I know. It has been a while. I can't say much about our sewer. It works as promised and has faded wayyyyyy into the background. 

Something fun came across my email today! So I will offer up a link (last below) to something that probably is not done here as it is so new, and how big are our biggest pipes anyway? This was a fun read!

"...these devices can fly through sewer pipes and capture detailed data without putting human workers at risk. Using these drones, inspections that once required large teams and traffic closures can now be handled more efficiently with just two operators."

Drone credit: Photo by Jonathan Lampel on Unsplash

Poop credit: @caspian81 

https://bgr.com/tech/the-secret-to-cleaner-safer-sewers-just-might-be-poop-drones/