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Post by olmucky on Aug 16, 2024 19:00:57 GMT -5
This is fn gross
9 million gallons of raw sewage dumped in Tampa Bay because of the hurricane
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 16, 2024 19:12:04 GMT -5
Infrastructure improvements must be in place before development commences
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Aug 16, 2024 19:30:01 GMT -5
They call that a Tuesday in Bay County
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 16, 2024 19:35:49 GMT -5
Same in Albany. They've been working on ours for years charging us every month for it.
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Aug 16, 2024 19:35:58 GMT -5
Catfish gotta eat.
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 16, 2024 20:14:46 GMT -5
After the flood of 94 when the whole city and the cemetery flooded the catfish had plenty to eat. My wife still won't eat fish out of the Flint river. They found most of the coffins.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 16, 2024 21:07:00 GMT -5
I’ve seen some of the older houses on the water run their sewer directly into the gulf. I don’t know if that was ever legal but my neighbors house was one of them
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Post by tonyroma on Aug 16, 2024 22:36:34 GMT -5
Infrastructure improvements must be in place before development commences SMH
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Post by richm on Aug 17, 2024 1:01:16 GMT -5
They dump about every storm or any other excuse they can think of... Sewage plants on east and west coasts. Even in the rivers.
Fishing w TP on your line…. Bleh.
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Post by whitebacon on Aug 17, 2024 6:11:08 GMT -5
They dump about every storm or any other excuse they can think of... Sewage plants on east and west coasts. Even in the rivers. Fishing w TP on your line…. Bleh. The sewage wasn't "dumped". What happened was the the rainfall overflowed the gravity sanitary system in certain places. In other words, rainfall, heavy rainfall, collected in the streets, and found it's way into the sanitary sewer system, mostly via manhole covers. Pump stations (lift stations) can only process so many GPH, (gallons per hour), hence the excess sewage that was/is unable to be processed, i.e. pumped to the sewer treatment plants, will run into the storm water system and ultimately end up in Tampa Bay. The problem is exacerbated by the fact the the City of Tampa doesn't have stormwater retention ponds, like you would see in a newer subdivision of homes. Almost the entire City of Tampa was built out long before modern storm water sewer retention systems were required by law/rule. Trust me, that I'm an expert on the subject. Whatever idiot news source said that sanitary sewer was intentionally pumped into the bay is categorically full of shit. The fines from such an intentional act would be in the tens of millions, but it didn't happen intentionally. It wasn't "pumped" into the bay. And the 9 million gallons, is an educated guess. This same phenomenon happened all over Hillsborough and Pinellas, albeit in smaller quantities.
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Post by slough on Aug 17, 2024 6:32:35 GMT -5
Same in Albany. They've been working on ours for years charging us every month for it. But when the fines are less than the fix, what happens?
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Post by johngalt on Aug 17, 2024 7:25:54 GMT -5
Just remember, A thousand people a day. 😉
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Post by whitebacon on Aug 17, 2024 7:37:46 GMT -5
Just remember, A thousand people a day. 😉 Yes, very true, but........the sewer over flows, the topic of this thread, was a result of a biblical type rainfall event. Many areas of the west coast of Florida saw up to 14 inches of rain from TS Debby, which far exceeds what we call a 100 year event.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 17, 2024 8:05:03 GMT -5
We had the same issue dumping into Lake Michigan. They constructed the “Deep Tunnel Project” and dug huge storm water reservoirs and use several massive quarries as reservoirs also. The problem has been greatly reduced but once in a while we still have an overflow.
Unfortunately Tampa will now face billions if not trillions of dollars in expense to create a storm water retention system that is sufficient. However, I don’t think anything could be done about overflow caused by hurricanes?
What do you think the answer is David?
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 17, 2024 8:07:14 GMT -5
If folks don't understand how sewer plants work, they just won't understand.
If capacity is reached, they have to let the turds go somewhere. It's way too expensive to build a plant for a once in every 50 or 100 year event.
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