Los Osos Sewer Makes TPO Magazine!

https://www.tpomag.com/online_exclusives/2024/01/community-treatment-combats-saltwater-intrusion-and-recharges-aquifer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Read%20on&utm_campaign=TPO240115 

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."

This image above came from a 2016 report you can only download here (it does not go to a page):

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:

Happy reading!

4/mg L Nitrogen!

Wow. These guys had even tougher standards than we did and our 7/mg L nitrogen, the Riverhead Sewer District on Long Island, New York.

https://www.tpomag.com/editorial/2018/05/a-new-york-plant-adopts-reuse-and-eliminates-the-pumping-of-100-million-gallons-of-groundwater-annually?utm_source=StreamSend&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&utm_campaign=180425

This was just a fascinating read because of our similarities in treatment plant size and their being near an estuary, the Peconic River Estuary. "....an EPA-designated nationally significant waterway. The shallow estuary has been prone to algae blooms, including the brown tide that decimated the scallop population in the 1980s."

I signed up for an online wastewater magazine subscription. I'm sure I was supposed to be a worker in the industry.... but due to living in a town with most likely the l-o-n-g-e-s-t sewer war in history that I am still writing about, it seemed like a useful idea for this blogger: https://www.tpomag.com/