As for the sewage, we in the US generally continue to discharge waste,
albeit with >98% solids removal and chlorination, into the environment. In
my neighborhood, the City of St. Petersburg uses deep well injection and
irrigation to dispose of 100% of our effluent. Nothing goes to the bays
anymore. Scallops are being reintroduced into a Tampa Bay with improved
water quality. It's a new idea and catching on.
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> From: STANLEY FRANCIS <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Sewage
> Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 6:58 AM
>
> To Mark and other interested parties,  Your comments are well founded as
> far as North Sea dumping is concerned, even though the sewage has always
> been treated. You will be interested to know however that by December
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> 8
> there will be' No Sewage Dumped' by any of the EEC member countries,-
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>
> sewage will have to be incinerated. Here in Belfast , Northern Ireland,
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> or
> example our rate payers have had to find =A3120million for the
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> r
> which is in its final stages of construction. The cost throughout Europe
> must be astronomical.  Is incineration used a lot in the US ? =
>
> Regards STANLEY FRANCIS.