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Does anyone have any information about how sewage lines operate as they pass through greenbelt areas? Where do they go from there? Is this smell a processed smell, or just pure sewage? It obviously is not that bad so I doubt it could be pure sewage, but you definitely notice it when you are around it.
I'm sure that it is not noticeable in neighborhoods, but it is found in adjacent greenbelts. Often there are recreational trails located there.
I appreciate any info. Or, point me to a website that would help with this. Thanks.
Many of our greenways follow sewer line easements. It seems that the strongest odors are in low-lying areas where air does not move as well.
It is raw sewage, and the smell comes from manholes with ventilated covers.
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Sanitary sewers aren't supposed to ventilate. Wastewater treatment folks do the best they can to prevent infiltration of fresh water into their systems. Any ventilation is also a path for fresh water to enter the system
My guess is what is likely causing the odor is decomposing vegetation in the damper areas of the greenbelt. AKA in some areas as swamp gas.
Maybe there is a sewage line break that nobody knows about. Also possible that it is natural smell that occurs at various times of the year due to rain, humidity, decomposing plants or possibly a wetland that has swampy smells under certain conditions.
Or a sewer treatment plant nearby that you are smelling. Some subdivisions have their own private sewer treatment plant and outside folks would hardly know about it. They could get smelly on hot days under certain conditions.
Sanitary sewers aren't supposed to ventilate. Wastewater treatment folks do the best they can to prevent infiltration of fresh water into their systems. Any ventilation is also a path for fresh water to enter the system
My guess is what is likely causing the odor is decomposing vegetation in the damper areas of the greenbelt. AKA in some areas as swamp gas.
"Ventilated" may be a bad choice of words, but the manhole covers are perforated with multiple 1"+/- diameter holes.
R u talking about marshes? They do smell cos of the decaying plants and stuff. I live right next to the marsh and I do smell a foul oder every once in awhile....and previously I was living right on the water at a bay area with marsh and it was also smelling
Many of our greenways follow sewer line easements. It seems that the strongest odors are in low-lying areas where air does not move as well.
It is raw sewage, and the smell comes from manholes with ventilated covers.
Yes, I forgot to mention that it is near those manholes.
Sanitary sewers aren't supposed to ventilate. Wastewater treatment folks do the best they can to prevent infiltration of fresh water into their systems. Any ventilation is also a path for fresh water to enter the system
My guess is what is likely causing the odor is decomposing vegetation in the damper areas of the greenbelt. AKA in some areas as swamp gas.
I had actually thought it might be something like that because it does smell a little like vegetation. But maybe it's a combination, or both at different spots.
Sooo...
And the government wants everyone on "mass sewage system" because it is "greener" for the rivers????
And yet there is no "massive natural plants" or trees within these suburbs / cities that can absorb that waste naturally to convert it to energy food source for plants hence cut down on its "pollution"????
That "circle of life study"????
How many of our children actually study that cycle of life??? Soil - seed - plant - animal - humans etc. cycle???
Yet, Our man-made (human's way not natural way) way is best????
To force people out of country into packed cities????
& its mass water & sewage systems????
Yah.
I drink water from my own well as did my neighbours who have lived their whole life here (since they were farm kids) of 70 plus years (both healthy people drinking their own well waters). And our sewage system is right in our own back yard....
I'd say... if our own well water is polluted, it will only poison 1 family... ours.
But...
when a mass water system affects all its users... it will be a "mass" nightmare shutdown!!!
And yah... the country's well pollutes its environment with its mass land as a "neutralizer"????
Indeed!
Are modern humans are just mindless fools who let others "think" for them that they are soooo lazy to think for themselves that they buy into all these hype so there will be another "control" to their free lives????
So SAD!
P.S. Just like the whole "organic food hype"... duh!!!
Every living plants IS organic.
Even meat unless humans processed it unnaturally with human created / generated substances.
Yes, even humans themselves are "organic" unless they are really "robots".
Buy into much a sales "pitch" yet???
Who has that money from that sale is "smiling" now...
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