Guest guest Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 Unless they've improved it in the last few years the sewage system is so poor in Grand Rapids, Michigan that whenever ever they get what can be considered a moderately heavy rain the sewage overflows into the Grand River and the water supply. Turning on any faucet at these times gets one a blast of the chlorine the city puts in the water to " make it safe " to drink. No thank you! Judith Alta -----Original Message----- Heidi, .. Methane is volatile. Didn't realize L.A. puts sewerage into ocean too. Boston's system is so antiquated running street drains with sewer drains that one inch of rain means everything gets diverted into Boston Harbor. Grosses me out. Pond here is decaying plant matter only. Even get whiffs of decay in winter with the ice burping at the stream it drains into. > Methane is pretty easy to produce, though a little hard to handle. > The L.A. sewage plant used to run (I'm not sure now) mainly > on the methane produced by sewage ... they didn't use electricity > from the grid. They only used a portion of the methane to run > the plant and sold the rest. But most of the sewage at the time > was never processed that far, just pumped out into the ocean. > When they fully processed the sewage (mostly by letting it > sit in tanks to ferment) they got methane, clear usable water, > and a thick sludge that they made into building bricks. Hmm. > That was 25 years ago, you'd think they would be even better > at it by now ... but a lot of sewage is still just dumped in the ocean. Wanita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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