oh poo..I read where the personhole overflowed in Santa Barbara and dumped 6000 gallons of raw sewage into the storm drain and onto Leadbetter beach....I guess it happened during the rains so it's kinda hard to detect unless each manhole cover had some sort of sensor on it that would alert the city which hole was overflowing....so nonprofit Channelkeeper sued the city to prevent this type of thing from happening, ain't it? well what went wrong Princess Kira?? the sewer that overflowed was recently lined according to reports...so the culprit was a private lateral that had some root intrusion into the main city line....better get to work on all those private lines Princess Kira..you can tax the citizens TWICE now!!
well 6000 gallons is alot of crap but remember, domestic sewage is 99.9% pure..as pure as Ivory soap! it's the 0.1% that needs attention...the overall impact on Leadbetter beach is nil..and what about dogs..they crap on the beach all the time and nobody cares because they just love their precious little dogs now, don't they....butt to put it into perspective, take a look at Princess Cruises...
A one-week voyage on your favorite love boat can generate25,000 gallons of oily bilge water
1 million gallons of grey water
11,550 gallons of sewage sludge
130 gallons of hazardous wastes
Can you guess where a lot of this stuff ends up? If you guessed the ocean then you’re right. The EPA allows cruise ships to dump untreated sewage into U.S. waters as long as it’s three miles from the coast. For most people, that doesn’t seem quite far enough.
geez, three miles off the coast?? from a giant ship?? I think Channelkeeper should stop suing municipalities, stop holding fund raisers, and start looking at them boatswains!!
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