Septage Pumper Truck On A Semi Sunny Day

Pumper trucks have been rolling continuously through Los Osos as laterals have been installed and septic tanks emptied. Where does all that stuff go? The City of Santa Maria!

Septage Receiving:
The Regulatory Compliance group operates the Septage Receiving Facility at the WWTP, and issues permits to waste haulers. The only facility of its kind on the Central Coast, this facility provides an important service to surrounding communities. The facility accepts deposited waste from portable toilets and residential and commercial septage, and allows haulers to dewater and store grease from restaurants. 

There was a burp in our new sewer's collection system seven months ago after sneaky contractor dumped some of this goop directly into the new sewer pipe - you can read about it here in a story by Neil Farrell in the Bay News:

http://www.tolosapressnews.com/first-hiccups-community-sewer/

I don't know If this is what happens in Santa Maria, but this video of septage delivery and processing is pretty fun—for sewer geeks anyway—the contraption featured is called a "Honey Monster!" The video has only gotten four views, so maybe you dear readers, can boost the viewership. Added bonus, the music is straight out of the 1980s!

Products Made From Reclaimed Toilet Paper

Yes, you read that right. It is an interesting concept as long as heavy rubber gloves are involved. If you recall, the Poo-Pets folks actually use cow flops, aka cow manure to fashion their creations, so why should objects made from used toilet paper (vs. food processed via a bovine alimentary canal) be so unimaginable (just because it was used by a human?). It seems like a lot of cellulose is involved with either. 

Have a look. Just remember, these bowls are decorative and you would not want to be eating your Wheat Chex in them.

http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/750/154354.html

A Holiday Gift For Someone You Really Don't Like 💩

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Have a look:

http://throwboy.com/products/poop

Or maybe this?

https://www.betabrand.com/womens-poo-emoji-casual-pocket-dress.html

Or for the thrifty, maybe just send one of these in a digital holiday card?

http://emojipedia.org/pile-of-poo/

Hey, send a box of homemade holiday cookies - here's how!

November 19, World Toilet Day

My bad. I missed the opportunity to inform you of World Toilet Day this year. I know this is a light hearted blog—well, most of the time—but this is a serious subject. Check out the website:

http://www.worldtoiletday.info

We may whine and complain, but really, we have it so good. One in three people in the world do not have access to a toilet. Here is a quote off the website:

"Worldwide, it is estimated that almost one-fifth of all urbanites – over 700 million people – live without a decent toilet. To put that into context, the queue for people waiting for toilets in our cities and towns would stretch around the world 29 times."

Manhole Cover Holiday Gifts!

Yes, it is almost that time again. Turkey Day is right around the corner and then, 31 days later....it is time for turkey again, or ham, or like in my family, lutfisk, which many feel belongs at the very least in a sewer blog, it is not for the faint of stomach. But I digress.

Take a look at the website below if you would like an unusual gift for a favorite friend, or your best enemy, who perhaps lives in Los Osos and is acquainted with things sewer. 

http://www.vernakular.com/collections/manhole-cover-doormats
(Where else can you find that Kuala Lumpur manhole cover doormat that you have been wanting since that ill-fated trip sixteen years ago?)

http://www.vernakular.com/collections/manhole-cover-coaster
How about manhole cover coasters? Perfect under that tall, frosty glass of your favorite urine-hued brew!

Happy shopping!

Victorian Fashion And The Loo

Perhaps you have wondered how ladies in voluminous Victorian dresses managed to take care of the bodily necessities that result from eating and drinking. We have all seen plenty of movies with food scenes where the gorgeously clad actors daintily fork up some prawns in aspic or sip a thimble of sherry from a cut crystal footed glass. But from personal experience we know that there is more to the story and that is where this video comes in—to explain how these exquisitely clad ladies managed all of "that." If you did not wonder about this, stick around and learn something.

Cambria's Sludge Stench!

P.U., 400 tons of it!

Read about it here in the Trib:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/community/cambrian/article115146178.html

Some Poop Humor For A Change Of Pace

The Poo-Pourri peeps have the funniest ads!

"We Delay, We Pay" Hit Morro Bay

Sadly, the le$$ons Los Osos had to offer Morro Bay did not resonate:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article114483123.html

Cal Poly's "Sewer Tour"

Today in the Tribune, photographer David Middlecamp posted a photo from the vault about a long gone Cal Poly tradition for new students called the "Sewer Tour!" It is gross and hilarious! Have a look:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/photos-from-the-vault/article114325738.html

Julie Tacker And Money

Let the facts speak for themselves. The sewer money FACTS. Read about a current candidate for the LOCSD. You may judge for yourself if you are happy to pay back your tax monies that were used to pay off attorneys to defend bad decisions requiring a legal defense. In any case, it is all over now - for good - if Julie Tacker is NOT re-elected.

(For a larger size, click the image.)

Update On Sewer Redux!

True to form, Julie Tacker removed the posts beneath my article below. 

I posted my comment to her campaign page at 12:38 p.m.. I checked her page a couple of times during the afternoon and two posts (NOT supporting her) were added to mine. I looked at my E-mails at 4:21 p.m., and found that I had received an E-mail from Facebook notifying me of a comment to what I wrote at 3:44 p.m. (someone I have never heard of). I went to Facebook to look, but all comments had vanished. Well, it was up for three hours anyway! I hope a few people saw it!

Sewer Politics Redux

Sewer politics has been with this town ever since the idea of a sewer was floated back in the 1970s. Battles were fought for and against. Our sewer is now built thanks to the County, and we are hooking up, but a whiff of sulphur still lingers locally, this time in the candidacy of someone for the Los Osos Community Services District board. This time the political football is not the sewer, but the very existence of the LOCSD. The LOCSD was created to have local control of the sewer; we lost that, but now its existence is challenged, which means having any control over our water supply is now challenged..

An opponent to any sewer at all, later revised to "just not THAT sewer," whose latest bid for destruction is the dissolution of the LOCSD under the ruse of "just letting the people decide" is a bad choice for Los Osos. Giving that person a platform for disseminating her message, beyond the three minute limit at public comment, is toxic. I believe her position on the board before, gave her a platform to lead the community into accepting the illegal Measure B. Her name is Julie Tacker.

More recently, Facebook has been her present tool in the current election. Not only are her opinions going out in pixel-world, but paid ads for her have been appearing on timelines. One crossed mine this afternoon that was paid for at CalCoastNews. It was "liked" by someone I am friends with, so it then appeared in my feed. I was now able to comment on said post and lo-and-behold, it appeared on the "Julie Tacker for Los Osos Community Services District" Facebook page! We shall see how long it lasts there before it is blocked. Ms. Tacker has blocked me from viewing her personal page, but I'm sure she will block me from this one too after this.

My comment:

Thank you Mr. X for "liking" this article so it wound up in my feed. I am banned from posting on CalCoastNews because I have opposing ideas from Ms. Tacker and they don't allow free speech over there, even if politely written. So now I have a chance to say something.

Sorry, but have an entirely different opinion from you on her. She wanted to move the sewer out of town, but did so in such a boneheaded way, poking a stick in the eye of the Water Board, that the LOCSD board she was on LOST the low interest loan, lost the sewer project, plunged the town into bankruptcy - which we have FINALLY climbed out of - and now wants to be back on the board - to dissolve it! Yes, DISSOLVE it. No thanks.

Our sewer is now $29 million more out of town, the only local control we have now over our water basin, the big important thing we have left—is by having a seat on the board that controls the water basin— the Basin Management Committee. Dissolve, and all control goes to the County and the two remaining water purveyors one of which, Golden State, would probably jump on owning it. Bad idea.

Please DO NOT vote for Julie Tacker. I do NOT trust her to have anything but her own interests at heart. Electing her to the Board would give her a powerful platform to push her idea of dissolution, which is a bad idea for this town. She has promoted many ideas to help her developer boyfriend in the past, you have to ask - what is her motive to push away our local control?