This is sick

[kg4kww]

What kind of sick-o would do this?

Now you guys can not go swimming for awhile.

This could filter its way into the Potomac River, then into the bay, then into the ocean.

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Arlington County officials are urging residents to avoid Four Mile Run Stream because it has been contaminated by waste from a portable toilet.

It's the second time waste has been illegally dumped in the stream in as many weeks.

Officials say they discovered dozens of gallons of sewage in the stream Thursday morning near Westover Park after a resident detected a strong odor and reported the spill.

A vacuum truck was used to remove most of the waste.

The county is advising residents not to fish in the stream or have any contact with the water, including wading or swimming, until further notice while bacteria is flushed away.

Full Stroy Channel 12 News (http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=8807386)

[WB3JLA]

IT ALWAYS FLOWS DOWN HILL
AND THE WORKING MAN GETS CRAPED ON

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[WA6MHZ]

Big news in Virginia, ho hum here in California. You should see the Tijuana River, where the toilets from the entire population of TJ go into a river that CONVENIENTLY then flows across the border into Imperial Beach on its way to the ocean. Don't go swimming in the water near IB or you might not like what you swim in to!!!

[K8MHZ]

A generation ago *all* sewage in rural areas near lakes and streams was just pumped into the water. I remember when it was made illegal to do so at a lake where my family owned property and the landowners were not happy as putting in septic tanks was nearly impossible due to the water level being only a few inches below the surface.

[WB3JLA]

Yes there is a River called "DO DO" river outside Subic Bay base.

look here
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1453361

http://rodgleghorn.com/2007/07/29/crossing-####-river/

and it is on a map GOOGLE it

[KI6NNO]

Been there, didn't "do" that.
Drank a *lot* of Mojo though... heheh

[kc9jwa]

eeewww, not good, i defintally wouldnt swim, and whoever did it is nasty as can be, and that person belongs in jail, or put him in the ocean for what he did.:D

[G4IFU]

I once read that, in George Washington's time, hippopotamuses (hippopotami?) were to be seen swimming in the Potomac. I hope they got out to go to the bathroom.

[WB3JLA]

I once read that, in George Washington's time, hippopotamuses (hippopotami?) were to be seen swimming in the Potomac. I hope they got out to go to the bathroom.

And I heard he threw a Dollar across it,
a Dollar can't go that far today

[kg4kww]

This is a real health problem and could cause a sickness that could make a lot of folks sick. I think hams need to call attention to this problem by putting a special event station on the air to get gov to cleanup the water.

[AG3Y]

Perhaps that would be a good job for the "wackers"! They could set up beside the stream, and when they see someone come with a porti-potti to dump its contents, they could light up ALL the LIGHTS on their LIGHTBAR, and get on the local repeater and call, "mayday mayday ! ! ! " :eek: and . . . . . . :confused: Oh, NEVER MIND ! :rolleyes: ;)

[WB3JLA]

This is a real health problem and could cause a sickness that could make a lot of folks sick. I think hams need to call attention to this problem by putting a special event station on the air to get gov to cleanup the water.

I AINT SAYIN IT IS RIGHT BUT

When I was younger I am 61 now we would go down to the creek and take a swim it came thru farms small towns in the 50’s, and yes their waste was put in this creek and also SUN OIL had old acid pits they dumped the waste from the refineries’.
Our parents knew we were there our dungarees would turn white
The Delaware River was not any better then but we took a dunk into it also
I was just a little River Rat I guess.
We would watch the waste water come into the river and count all the little WHITE TROUT come out
I never got sick

They build a pool in the 60’s I went to that as a teenager I got athletes foot and infective ears and a broken nose doing a watermelon on the diving board, go figure

[WF7A]

"The county is advising residents not to fish in the stream or have any contact with the water, including wading or swimming, until further notice while bacteria is flushed away."

Kudos to the copy writer who wedged that one in. :)

As an aside, at one time I was thinking of buying a house just a few feet from the waterfront and asked the owner if the area was plumbed for sewers.

"Nope."

It turned out that each home had a holding tank that would be pumped-out monthly. Not a bad idea when you think about it...though it does make you wonder how the company screened applicants for the job.

[N7RJD]

This is a real health problem and could cause a sickness that could make a lot of folks sick. I think hams need to call attention to this problem by putting a special event station on the air to get gov to cleanup the water.

Yep because God knows (used as an old expression, no religious meaning intended) without human waste the water would be pure and clean. After all fish and animal dung in your water is good for you.

Yes this is a problem. No this is not something that requires an uprising or a uniting of the whackers. It does require somebody be made an example of which I have a feeling will be happening soon even without a special event station run from the leech pond.

[AC0BU]

they passed an ordinance in the town

they said we'd have to tear it down

that little brown shack out back so dear to me

though the health department said it's day was over and dead

it will stand forever in my memory

[kg4kww]

Well I hope no human or animal gets sick from this water.

Wonder if they will ever catch the dirt bag that did this?

[WB3JLA]

Some where I read in Texas the oil drilling companies had to pay a company to remove the oil wells toxic sludge.

Then this same oil was given to the local counties and it was sprayed on the dirt roads to keep the weeds down

and that is legal

I think it was some salt buy product

[G4IFU]

When we lived in the beautiful Welsh countryside, well away from main drainage, everybody had either a septic tank or cesspit. The older type of septic tank looked after itself, and hardly ever needed emptying, although that type is no longer approved under new building codes. The modern cesspit is a sealed vessel, rather like a giant plastic bottle, and needs emptying every year or sometimes more frequently. This was quite an expensive job, when done by the major contractors. A number of the local farmers used to provide an emptying service at about half the price you'd normally pay. But what did they do with the cesspit contents? The answer became obvious at "muck-spreading" time, when it was clear that they were augmenting the traditional animal manure with something decidedly smellier. But I never got to the bottom (sorry!) of whether this practice was strictly legal or not.

[KI4ITV]

Well, let's all over-react a little....

There is no telling how much crap and raw sewage is dumped into the Potomac every time the sewer system is over taxed by substantial rainfall or other system problems. I'm pretty sure this happens in many high population areas as SOP and is more common than we think.


:rolleyes:

An EPA 2004 report to Congress estimated that 850 billion gallons of storm water mixed with raw sewage pour into U.S. waters every year from older, combined sewer systems that were designed to overflow in wet weather. These combined systems, built by cities in the 19th and early 20th centuries, are now considered antiquated and a threat to public health and the environment, according to the EPA and environmental groups.

An additional 3 billion to 10 billion gallons of raw sewage spill accidentally every year from systems designed to carry only sewage, according to the 2004 report. Causes of these spills include improper connections, clogs from debris, construction accidents and cracks in aging pipes.


Source: Just one article of many (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-05-07-sewers-main_N.htm)

[KA9VQF]

When I was a kid we lived on an old farm about 7 miles out of town. When we first moved in we had an outhouse. As time went on dad installed an indoor toilet and bath tub.

Before that we had a large steel tub we would heat water in to take a bath.

As a convenience dad ran pipe several hundred feet from the house into a ditch that led to the nearby swampy area. When we moved it was still hooked up this way. The folks who bought the place eventually put in a septic tank.

About two years after they installed the proper septic system the county and state decided to give them a hefty fine for having the ‘open’ sewer for all those years.

They went to court trying to get out of the fine, since my dad was dead I had to go to court to tell them when dad had initially put in the toilet.

I didn’t remember the exact year but was able to give them a ball park figure. They then decided that since my dad had done the original work he too should be fined. {a little tough to do since he was dead for so many years and we hadn’t lived there for close to 20 years} I said that the land owner should be the one getting any fines since we were only tenants. {The fellow who owned it when we lived there was also dead}

I thought the land owner should have put in a proper sewer system at the time and the court agreed. Ultimately they came to the conclusion that since it was established practice at the time it was installed no one was to get a fine at all.

During the years we lived there we would walk the mile or so to Devils creek and swim at a good hole. Sometimes cow pies would float by. We never paid them much attention.

[AC0BU]

I would hum a happy tune peepin' through the quarter moon

as my daddy's kin had done before

it was in that quiet spot daily cares could be forgot

it gave the same relief to rich and poor

[N6KIA]

Maybe it was Homer Simpson :p

[kg4kww]

Some pig has dumped a load of mess into a creek and made it unsafe and this could find its way to the ocean and you don't care N6KIA?

Unreal.

[N7RJD]

Some pig has dumped a load of mess into a creek and made it unsafe and this could find its way to the ocean and you don't care N6KIA?

Unreal.

If it did make it to the ocean it would be so diluted that it would fall well below what the government allows in your drinking water. Now, take a breath have a nice glass of tap water and relax.

[kg4kww]

No Thanks, I will have a Diet Coke.

[N7RJD]

No Thanks, I will have a Diet Coke.

Make it Diet Pepsi and I'll buy. :)

[VE1IDX]

Another crappy post by KWW. :D;)

[KA8NCR]

Some pig has dumped a load of mess into a creek and made it unsafe and this could find its way to the ocean and you don't care N6KIA?

Unreal.

Probably a bunch of kids beered up on a summer night.

Far worse flows out through the rivers into the ocean under legal means. I'm not going to lose any sleep over this.

[kc9jwa]

I once read that, in George Washington's time, hippopotamuses (hippopotami?) were to be seen swimming in the Potomac. I hope they got out to go to the bathroom.
Yeah they say the water isnt safe to drink, so it proves this.:rolleyes:

[kb3laz]

I once read that, in George Washington's time, hippopotamuses (hippopotami?) were to be seen swimming in the Potomac. I hope they got out to go to the bathroom.

Hip, hip hop, hip hop anonymous.:D

[WB3JLA]

I am here to say years ago 1955, 1966 I am 61 now, my uncles would take down to Rock Hall Maryland and we would go crabbing and fishing in the Chesapeake Bay and Chester River.
We ate clams, oysters steamed and raw never got sick

The Bay was alive more fish than you could take home there was on laws against pollution every boater , ship, industries and town flushed in to the bay from New York on down the Susquehanna River and this has been going on since the 1920’s

The Bay is DEAD the flats under the dam was loaded with Bay grasses , this was the nesting grounds for the stripped bass the grass is gone not because of raw sewage but the farmers and the home owners with their weed killer that washed in to the bay years ago and it is not going away every time they dredge they just stir more up.

WE ALL KILLED THE BAY

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