Sewage Water Cocoa Beach? (condos, house, new construction)

[haywood16]

Whats the deal with Cocoa Beach using smelly sewage water to water lawns? Who approved this? Everywhere you go the lawns being watered smell like a Staten Island landfill.

[North Beach Person]

I don't know the specifics for your area but the use of treated waste water (which has to be purer than what comes out of your tap although it's usually loaded with nitrogen)) is being done nationwide by municipalities to irrigate public planting areas.

I imagine some areas with new construction may have run dedicated lines to private areas, also. I know that's been discussed here in MD.

http://www.iamb.it/share/img_new_med...49_50hamdy.pdf

Recycled Wastewater Safe for Crop Irrigation, Study Says

[Rabflmom]

Originally Posted by haywood16

Whats the deal with Cocoa Beach using smelly sewage water to water lawns? Who approved this? Everywhere you go the lawns being watered smell like a Staten Island landfill.

Are you sure it is not just unfiltered well water? It usually has a yellow tint and smells like sulphor.

[1insider]

I'm in Cocoa Beach and haven't smelled anything. Our reclaimed gray water for irrigation doesn't smell. Maybe you're smelling rotting sea grass pushed up against the Banana River shoreline by the west winds of the last few days.

[beckerd2]

You are smelling the sulphur from the well water.

[haywood16]

Originally Posted by beckerd2

You are smelling the sulphur from the well water.

Ok thanks for clarifying........

Would that be in the household water as well. I notice the shower water has a smell and the water isn't safe to drink with all the Flouride.

[TN Tin Man]

Not sewage water.. the water in Brevard county has a very heavy iron content plus sulfur the reason you see the stains on walkways.
The reclaimed water for lawn & golf course is reclaimed water from the sewage plant.. not potable water.

[Rabflmom]

Originally Posted by TN Tin Man

Not sewage water.. the water in Brevard county has a very heavy iron content plus sulfur the reason you see the stains on walkways.
The reclaimed water for lawn & golf course is reclaimed water from the sewage plant.. not potable water.

....and that is why they put the signs along the roads and places where they do use it, telling us what it is and not to drink it. I have never really noticed a smell from it anywhere that they use it. The Indian River was stinking pretty badly this week in spots. Its smell is carried with the wind and you sometimes can smell it a block away from the river.

Our well water we use for watering the grass here does not smell like the well water from our old free flowing well we had back in the 70s and 80s.That water was nasty smelling, but we still used it to fill the pool. This well must be pumped from a deeper well than even the well at our house built in 2006. BTW all free flowing wells are capped now. Funny story from the early 80s. One time when my husband was building condos up in Hilton Head and gone for the week, the pressure from the free flowing well was so high it blew the tap right off of it and spewed water about 10 feet high. The kids played in the front yard "fountain" while I worked trying to put the tap back on the pipe. It took forever but I managed to get it on and reattached all by myself! The neighbors sat on their patio watching the show as I got wetter and wetter. The older man came over after I had the tap back on to help......

[1insider]

Originally Posted by Rabflmom

....and that is why they put the signs along the roads and places where they do use it, telling us what it is and not to drink it. I have never really noticed a smell from it anywhere that they use it. The Indian River was stinking pretty badly this week in spots. Its smell is carried with the wind and you sometimes can smell it a block away from the river.

I think this is what the OP was smelling. The west winds had the stinky stuff that is usually on the west side of the Banana River pushed over here in places this past week. With the wind shift, it'll be gone and back to the usual salt air.