Treated sewage on ovals

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

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Andy, are you sure the smell is from the oval and not the treatment tanks?

All WWTPs I have seen before have been required to test the water daily, not weekly.

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Hi Ben.
The storage tank at the depot was tested daily for 3 or 4 weeks during the startup phase as far as Im aware.
Its not the treatment dams,they dont smell and are much further away from town.
It only smells whilst the sprinklers are running 10pm to 3am.
Problem could be with the watering days,mon to thu at the moment as we dont get enough treated water to go 7 days(gravity feed pipe to the depot is too small diameter).Guessing the balance left in the tank between thu watering and mon watering could be allowing the effulent to brew.As we are on holidays there hasnt been anyone around to shandy the storage tank with the normal water to allow 7 day watering.
Andrew

Think about it. All water is recycled. No-one is making new water. All the water on this planet is all there ever has been. It goes around and around through one set of kidneys after another.

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Think about it. All water is recycled. No-one is making new water. All the water on this planet is all there ever has been. It goes around and around through one set of kidneys after another.

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But don't forget nature gives us clean water through a distillation process. (evaporation - clouds - rain)
The best we do is filtration. I would rather drink water distilled from urine than filtered urine.
Seems to me you'd be quite happy drinking filtered urine. But, then, you're used to drinking Queensland beer. Probably not much difference.

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Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

But don't forget nature gives us clean water through a distillation process. (evaporation - clouds - rain)
The best we do is filtration. I would rather drink water distilled from urine than filtered urine.
Seems to me you'd be quite happy drinking filtered urine. But, then, you're used to drinking Queensland beer. Probably not much difference.

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The idea of natural distillation is fine in theory assuming the rain falls directly into your drinking glass. Unfortunately for the theory, rain falls on the ground and overland flows pick up all sorts of nasties on the way to the storage dams including recycled treated ( and sometimes untreated) sewage.

Anyway, a Victorian could not recognise beer as nothing resembling beer is made by Foster's Brewing Ltd. My late father-in-law referred to Carlton products as Surfside Sex.

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......Seems to me you'd be quite happy drinking filtered urine. But, then, you're used to drinking Queensland beer. Probably not much difference.

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Oi! I'll have you know Queensland beer is made from unfiltered urine. Filtering....I don't know what you Mexican softies think passes for beer, but up here it's the cats that pass it. :p

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The idea of natural distillation is fine in theory assuming the rain falls directly into your drinking glass. Unfortunately for the theory, rain falls on the ground and overland flows pick up all sorts of nasties on the way to the storage dams including recycled treated ( and sometimes untreated) sewage.

Anyway, a Victorian could not recognise beer as nothing resembling beer is made by Foster's Brewing Ltd. My late father-in-law referred to Carlton products as Surfside Sex.

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Falls straight into my rainwater collection and storage units. That's not theory.

Still, I'd rather drink the water from the storage dams than filtered ****.

When I drink beer, I drink the best beer Australia has to offer, Coopers.
Actually, last night I was having dinner with a member of the Cooper family.
Yes, the beer brewing Cooper family.

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Falls straight into my rainwater collection and storage units. That's not theory.

Still, I'd rather drink the water from the storage dams than filtered ****.

When I drink beer, I drink the best beer Australia has to offer, Coopers.
Actually, last night I was having dinner with a member of the Cooper family.
Yes, the beer brewing Cooper family.

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And the rainwater falls on your roof and mixes with the bird poo and anything else that is blown there.

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

And the rainwater falls on your roof and mixes with the bird poo and anything else that is blown there.

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Hmmm, No.
What falls on the roof goes into the drainage system, into a river, then a dam and then gets used for irrigation of crops.
Still, I'd rather drink that filtered than what we flush down our toilets, laundry troughs and showers filtered.

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Hmmm, No.
What falls on the roof goes into the drainage system, into a river, then a dam and then gets used for irrigation of crops.
Still, I'd rather drink that filtered than what we flush down our toilets, laundry troughs and showers filtered.

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Rainwater is great in rural areas where the only real contamination comes from dust or leaves etc, the problem in suburbia is pollution from cars, truck and industry as well as the no idea renovations who sand , cut or in one case I know of water blast their old house that is lined with a delicious combo of asbestos and lead paint. All this dust goes up to land in your rainwater tank:twisted:. One simpleton blasted off his asbestow Roof with a karcher Type blaster coating all his neighbours homes as well as the school playground in fibres! The cleanup was in the six figures as they had to clean everything including the airconditioning ducting in a neighbours home as well as the lawns in 3 yards and the school.

frantic,
I don't live in suburbia. I have worked in the sewerage and water supply industry for many years. I've worked on projects at SEPP, Werribee Farm and several regional purification plants. Oh, on the water supply side, I've been involved in several chlorination and fluoridation plants. I also know a little bit about RO units as used on mines and petrochemical plants.
You're still not going to convince me I need to drink filtered **** at home. It's ok for the garden and flushing toilets but I ain't drinking it.