Some cities, especially older eastern ones, (I'm surprised PDX has this issue), use combined storm drain / sewage systems. There's only one set of plumbing and when it rains it overloads the treatment plants.
In places like Houston, this happens and not due to a plumbing problem. Sometimes there is just so much precipitation, they only option is to let effluent out. In Houston, there is a massive sewage system. There are endless bayous and ditches to control water. And the streets are designed to carry water. (That's what happens when one builds a city on swamp land). Still, when the big ones come in in the form of big rain (hurricane or not) overflow is the norm.
Hey Crimper
I've just read a bunch about Lead in our environment and crime.
Mostly from lead in gasoline that has been phased out, and which has trended with violent crime rates
Are you crime people talking about this issue
If not, I can put up some links
I've seen it. It's interesting stuff, but it fails to answer lots of questions. For example, crime has started rising in the last year or so. Has the amount of lead done the same? Given the stuff I saw, they say it's a 23 yr lag so this means that lead increased about 23 yrs back.
Another thing it cannot explain is this - if lead is a constant in some environments as they say, then why in those environments aren't everyone offending? It's still just some.
And the connection they've drawn is with arrests, not offending. Research is CLEAR that offending does not equal arrest. Many other things go into it.
And, the connection they've drawn is with 'street crime' only. What of all the white collar criminal? These guys do more damage (monetarily at least some would argue) than street criminals. Does lead affect them too?
I think it's cool work, and like all the other stuff likely can explain a small part of it, but we'll likely never find the one big explanation. Still, I'm going to keep my eye on it. And I'm happy to see innovative approaches being taken.
Happy to see any links you have to share - I likely missed some frigging around deeply with intimate partner violence the last week or so (research, not personal experience).
I googled it just to see what the hell it was and i don't get it. Bush cheney and rummey are not a set of numbers that equal zero.... unless you are refering to morality....... but anyway there is a clear case for prosecution that equals more than zero.
Texas and other areas have a problem in that they are as flat as a billiard table and both stormwater and sewage must be pumped.
This is what happens when there's a power failure at a stormwater pump station in an improperly designed system, setting up a hydraulic shock that propagates thru a storm drain system at 1100 fps.
TGT is funny. I guess it wasn't a 'plumbing problem' but a 'I hate the EPA' problem. I doubt there would be much complaining from landowners about that project.
yeah I went for a dip in the willamete river and I'm glad i didn't know about the big turd purge at the time! Hell i'm just a damn touron, I'd hate to be the poor bastards living down stream.
Using the Nixon era and Nixon as a measuring stick along with the creation of the EPA and the endangered species act , our current republican party looks pretty sleazy and backwards..It's really sad that our political system has de-evolved into such a desperate state of affairs thanks to the successful power grab of the rich and powerful...Nixon makes Obama look like a John Bircher....RJ
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