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Recycled Water

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    Sounds yummy, right?!?
    Well, its happening in State College Pa. (Home of Penn State University.)

    WasteWater (sewage) is filtered through a Module filter (microfiltration), then Reverse Osmosis then sent out to town to (purple) fire hydrants, a big car wash and to a facility (probably Rockview State Penitentiary) that uses the water for laundry service.
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    better pic
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    So when your car comes out of the car wash and looks chitty you know why..................................:rofl: :lol:
     
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    Probably see more of that in the next couple years. :eek:
    :startled:
     
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    What ????................Chitty Car Washes????
     
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    That....and recycling of waste water to such outlets... like telephone pole fountains ....:rofl: :lol:
     
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    I say it's about time. All the people in the world out there with no readily drinkable water, and we pizz and chit in it.
     
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    I'm sure this recycled water is cleaner than most wells in the US!
     
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    TurboDiesel is probably correct. Done the right way, it is the cleanest water possible. When I first started teaching in 1986 I took some students to an indoor container catfish farm. They recycled the water and the guy leading the tour would always dip with a glass from the back of the tank (where the clean water is) and drank from it. He claimed with his water tests it was cleaner than that town's water. Still just a mindset to get away from thinking it was "used" water.
     
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    Some cruise ships use the waste heat from their electricity generators to distill their waste water and then further purify it. Often "cleaner" than bottled water.
    Course, water is only as safe as the pipes used to dispense it.
     
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    No thanks. I'll stick to well water.
     
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    I read something a few years back that some college educated type had written up from a study they did. It said their math showed that every glass of water we drink contains a certain amount of water molecules in it that Jesus Christ once drank...there's something to ponder on a bit...
     
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    :coffee: Won a coffee bet for taking a drink of our final effluent years ago at the Sewage Plant.:salute::coldone:
     
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    We have a pic of a past employee swimming in the final effluent/aeration tank...looks just as clean/clear as the city pool.
     
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    Took an unexpected dip in the grit tank years ago brenndatomu. That one left a stink on me. :whistle::coldone:
     
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    Eeewww :faint:
    I can top that one...10-12 years ago we hired 2 college kids for the summer. They were both mowing the yard with Steiner tractors
    when the guy comes from another part of the property to find the other Steiner, the one that the girl had been on, upside down in the sludge channel with only the tires showing. :startled:He panics thinking that she was still under this thing and dives in...but couldn't find her...after a bit he notices the black muddy tracks leading back toward the maintenance building...yup, he dove in for nothing...she was already being de-contaminated o_O :doh: :rofl: :lol: (neither one of them came back the following summer) :rofl: :lol:
     
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    Yes sir ya got me on that one.:handshake::coldone:

    De-contaminated at our plant means a garden hose.;):cheers:
     
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    Pretty much...and a ride home in your skivvies if you don't have spare clothes...
     
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