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To: elmatador who wrote (3709)	10/21/2019 2:19:32 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 13801

Los Angeles has been trying different formulations of light-colored asphalt which removes the "heat-sink" effect of cities in the areas where it's been placed. Another interesting finding are the source of microbeads of plastic in the ocean, fish animals and waterways are mostly the bits of automobile tires rubbed off and shed on the roads. Not straws or bottles. As an area becomes more populated, adjustments must be made. In a rural area toilets connect to septic tanks at each home. Once the population rises you need to replace this system with an industrial scale sewage treatment plant. My Grandparents had a cabin in a small mountain town of 1,800 people with two ski resorts that brought in day crowds mostly. Everything was on septic tanks, but after 80 years the one block long commercial center of town had to install a sewage treatment plant to eliminate a new problem with periodic sewage smell in the one block area where the restaurants and stores were. It was expensive but customers are kind of put off by the smell of sewage. Today the town has a population of 4,500 and an expanded sewage treatment plant. If you want low-tech, people need to live in towns with a population less than 60 and rely on time-tested transportation like wood wheeled wagons. Malibu California also had to put in a very costly sewage treatment facility because they finally had too many homes in the hills, each with their own septic tank. A wealthy exclusive town that smells of sewage has to fix their own self-created problems.