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To: DMaA who wrote (173634)	7/15/2006 3:32:05 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793774

NOT "into the bay": They're flushing the crap into a six knot tidal current of highly oxygenated 50 degrees F water. There isn't a live microbe or virus left a hundred yards from the outfall. Our benthic organisms are happy as clams, so to speak. The fish and birds are also healthy. So, yeah, I'm OK with it. I realize you may feel inconvenienced by the effort, but nonetheless, you need to get acquainted with facts. Not bad for a third world hell hole. Now, now. Why don't you examine the damage caused by disposal of treated sewage both on land and in the ocean? Not everywhere in the world has the unique ocean conditions, small population, and small amount of "dirty" industry Victoria has which allow it deal with its wastes in a minimally treated fashion. It's actually quite entertaining to watch what goes on. Some environmentally attuned individual or group discovers what Victoria is doing with its sewage and like the previous ones who have made the discovery, say, "This is dreadful and disgusting; your/our sewage should be properly treated before it's put into the Virgin Ocean, Etc." The city engineer says, "But it's doing no harm" for the reasons I mention above. So then there's lots of argybargy at city council meetings and eventually the city hires some scientists or engineers, (who are quite often ecologically attuned and PC to a huge degree, and sometimes even devoted worshippers of Gaia), to study the effects of the sewage outfall. The results are invariably the same, no matter who does the study, "It's doing no harm but, boy, it's sure rotten optics. We recommend you spend $200 million dollars to fix up the optics" Understandably, Victorians are reluctant to spend $200 million dollars to repair "optics" which offend the writer in Seattle, (which cannot dispose of its untreated wastes into Puget Sound), and we certainly don't want to spend it to repair your offended optics. Conditions here allow us to do it. Most places conditions don't allow it.