Treated Sewage to Flow into Lake Winnipesaukee?

brk-lnt · 11-15-2007, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Mink Islander

Per Wikipedia: Effluent in the man-made sense is generally considered to be pollution, such as the outflow from a sewage treatment facility or the wastewater discharge from industrial facilities. An effluent sump pump, for instance, pumps waste from toilets installed below a main sewage line.

But Affluent means: af·flu·ent adj. Generously supplied with money, property, or possessions; prosperous or rich. See synonyms at rich.
Plentiful; abundant. Flowing freely; copious.

So I suppose you could have affluent effluent, and even effluent affluence.....

I think affluent snow is found in Aspen, Co.

You beat me to it

The mix-up of the words in this thread makes some posts particularly humorous.

fatlazyless · 11-15-2007, 07:50 AM

The Waterville Valley ski area has been using treated waste water from the very nearby WV waste water treatment facility for years and years. In Winter, it goes into the man-made snow. Other times, it goes into the Mad River, and the Mad is a good fly-fishing river for little brook trout. Have been told that it is all regulated by federal standards

And the man-made snow all looks like the same powdered ice type....good schussing stuff.....cannot tell which ski snow is from recycled effluent or from the pond. It's all treated with chlorine, or something, and aerated.

You can tell by the smell you are in Plymouth NH. Positioned close to the Pemigewasset and below South Main St is where Plymouth has their smelly little treatment facility.

Some towns have better locations for treatment than others. Ashland took about 20 acres of pasture on the Pemigewasset River to build its' treatment facility. Two years ago, they agreed to leasing a small space for a cell phone tower.

Hey, maybe if Wolfeboro finds their local town spot by eminent domain, it could get double use as a cell phone tower lease-out location and make the town maybe $1400./month and help with the bad reception.
If Romney wins, all the cell-bars and affluent-effluent will be getting overloaded, fo-sure!

Tomorrow, Saturday Nov 17, is opening day at the WV ski area, high country-$25., so you all can take a close-up look at the white stuff- snow-effluent-affluent-mix and its' ability to stand up to 48 degrees and 2' of rain........hmmmm....well...maybe not?

tis · 11-15-2007, 09:13 AM

Sorry, Mink, I do know better. I type so fast that I sometimes do things like that. And a change like that can change the interpretaion of the post by others.

Yes, LIF, it was expansion of the existing fields. It was approximately 100 acres, much of which would not be usable for such an intense use of the area. The state toured it a couple of days before the vote and the selectmen had an informal report so knew then, but wanted to go ahead and try for the vote anyway. And the town's appraisal was $247,000 for the land and the owner's appraisal was $2mil. Quite a difference. So the owner would have appealed to the state land appeals board and certainly would have gotten more than the 247. How much, who knows. But it was certainly an unknown. ANd I think most townspeople knew that.

The selectmen hired an engineering firm, Woodard and Curan to come up with the new plan. Problem was, W&C were actually the company running the current system. Talk about the hen and the henhouse. So anyway, that was the proposal given to the selectmen and they took it- seemed easiest and quickest solution, but not the best.

So the second time they hired an impartial engineering firm who actually came up with more than one idea. They feel that the rapid infiltration is the cleanest and best. Problem is, noone wants sewer. I think what they are doing now, is a lot cleaner. At least the water sits in the ground for filtering. As Acres said, the current system, is just running off into Hershey Brook and into Mirror Lake and into Back BAy in Wolfeboro. I feel much better about having it underground for a period of time. To me, it is lot like our private systems. The effluent sits in our leach beds but eventually of course leaches out.

Wolfeboro doesn't have a brook, if a town has a running brook you are allowed to dump into that. Acres Per mentioned Franklin, but the state says there are days when Frankin is too full too. At first the selectmen said Franklin would be too expensive- around $20,000 according to them- but it seems by the time this is done, it will be around that.

FLL mentioned WV. That is a lot further north than Wolfeboro for the snow concept as was the area in Maine that the two women selectmen inspected and then returned and tried to bulldog it to the town.

11-15-2007, 07:50 AM	#2
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 9,169 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 310 Thanked 1,103 Times in 812 Posts	The Waterville Valley ski area has been using treated waste water from the very nearby WV waste water treatment facility for years and years. In Winter, it goes into the man-made snow. Other times, it goes into the Mad River, and the Mad is a good fly-fishing river for little brook trout. Have been told that it is all regulated by federal standards And the man-made snow all looks like the same powdered ice type....good schussing stuff.....cannot tell which ski snow is from recycled effluent or from the pond. It's all treated with chlorine, or something, and aerated. You can tell by the smell you are in Plymouth NH. Positioned close to the Pemigewasset and below South Main St is where Plymouth has their smelly little treatment facility. Some towns have better locations for treatment than others. Ashland took about 20 acres of pasture on the Pemigewasset River to build its' treatment facility. Two years ago, they agreed to leasing a small space for a cell phone tower. Hey, maybe if Wolfeboro finds their local town spot by eminent domain, it could get double use as a cell phone tower lease-out location and make the town maybe $1400./month and help with the bad reception. If Romney wins, all the cell-bars and affluent-effluent will be getting overloaded, fo-sure! Tomorrow, Saturday Nov 17, is opening day at the WV ski area, high country-$25., so you all can take a close-up look at the white stuff- snow-effluent-affluent-mix and its' ability to stand up to 48 degrees and 2' of rain........hmmmm....well...maybe not? Last edited by fatlazyless; 11-15-2007 at 10:33 AM.

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11-15-2007, 09:13 AM	#3
tis Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,945 Thanks: 795 Thanked 1,493 Times in 1,040 Posts	Sorry, Mink, I do know better. I type so fast that I sometimes do things like that. And a change like that can change the interpretaion of the post by others. Yes, LIF, it was expansion of the existing fields. It was approximately 100 acres, much of which would not be usable for such an intense use of the area. The state toured it a couple of days before the vote and the selectmen had an informal report so knew then, but wanted to go ahead and try for the vote anyway. And the town's appraisal was $247,000 for the land and the owner's appraisal was $2mil. Quite a difference. So the owner would have appealed to the state land appeals board and certainly would have gotten more than the 247. How much, who knows. But it was certainly an unknown. ANd I think most townspeople knew that. The selectmen hired an engineering firm, Woodard and Curan to come up with the new plan. Problem was, W&C were actually the company running the current system. Talk about the hen and the henhouse. So anyway, that was the proposal given to the selectmen and they took it- seemed easiest and quickest solution, but not the best. So the second time they hired an impartial engineering firm who actually came up with more than one idea. They feel that the rapid infiltration is the cleanest and best. Problem is, noone wants sewer. I think what they are doing now, is a lot cleaner. At least the water sits in the ground for filtering. As Acres said, the current system, is just running off into Hershey Brook and into Mirror Lake and into Back BAy in Wolfeboro. I feel much better about having it underground for a period of time. To me, it is lot like our private systems. The effluent sits in our leach beds but eventually of course leaches out. Wolfeboro doesn't have a brook, if a town has a running brook you are allowed to dump into that. Acres Per mentioned Franklin, but the state says there are days when Frankin is too full too. At first the selectmen said Franklin would be too expensive- around $20,000 according to them- but it seems by the time this is done, it will be around that. FLL mentioned WV. That is a lot further north than Wolfeboro for the snow concept as was the area in Maine that the two women selectmen inspected and then returned and tried to bulldog it to the town.