water and sewer
sewer water is it harmfull what can you do about it getting fixed?

we live in a trailer park and where our trailer is is where all the sewers connect. it is over flowing in our yard, running down the driveway and all over the trailer park. the landlord had someone fix it but didnt do a very good job at it because its still doing it what can we have done about it

It needs to be cleaned up and the problem needs to be solved.

The problem is that the sewage is not flowing. The line is plugged it could be from a number of possibilities including that the final destination is full or plugged itself. You need to encourage some quick action on this. If the last person did not do the job properly another must be found. If the landlord is not responding then city health dept should be contacted.

Clean up may involve putting chlorine bleach into the problem, shovels, wet vacs, or throwing dirt on top as permitted and required.

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Water Utilities-Decreasing Revenues and Increasing Costs

A complex set of circumstances are at play to cause this improbable situation including lower demand, a shift in income sources and fixed costs associated with maintenance and facilities. Efforts have been made by the utilities to reduce their costs where possible, but this has not alleviated the problem, entirely. Water consumers – virtually every household and business in the United States – must find ways to manage their finances or conserve even more.

During the global recession, many businesses have reduced shifts or closed entirely. To the extent that these companies were users of water, their demand has dried up with their industry. Before the recession began, many companies were heavy users of water, including metal processing plants, assembly factories and food and beverage makers. Each of these industries, and more like them, used water in ways that most consumers wouldn’t – water jet cutting, process heating and chilling. Such industrial water creates two stresses on the water system; the demand for the water itself and the demand for wastewater treatment after it is used. Water utilities responded to these stresses in the boom-times by building modern wastewater treatment facilities and increasing their well-fields. When the business demand plummeted, however, these expensive facilities still had to be maintained, even though they were not being fully utilized.

Similarly, families cut by the recession began to conserve; watering lawns less frequently and trying to keep their bills low in any other way possible. Just like in the case of business, this decreased demand did little to impact operating costs. Certainly, less electricity was required to run the pumps and a decreased volume of wastewater required processing, but the cost of running the facilities was mostly fixed.

Compounding the problem was the huge drop in revenue from new home building and development. In the lead-up to the recession, developers were paying fees to run water and sewer pipes to new subdivisions and business parks. In some cases, these revenues went from millions of dollars just a few years ago to only a few hundred thousand for the past year. It appears that many utilities were factoring these revenues into their general costs of operation, setting up their users up for a bigger hit when the economy turned sour.

In some cases, like Mount Pleasant, SC, the water utility was forced to lay off nine employees. Additionally the Mount Pleasant Waterworks cut overall operating costs by 10 percent. Even with those savings, however, the utility was forced to raise rates by nine percent this year. That amounts to approximately $50 per year for the average household says Clay Duffie, Mount Pleasant Waterworks’ general manager.

The economy appears to be on the verge of recovery, so the end of this conundrum may be in sight. Going forward, water managers and planners should be encouraged to utilize smart planning to analyze finance and revenue ‘weak points” that may lead to future shortfalls. This won’t stop every problem from occurring, but it may make the next recession at least slightly less painful than this one.

 

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Can you get HIV from public sewer water?

I recently worked as a plumber for CVS pharmacies, and while roto rooting their sewer drains, a glob of God knows what hit me in the eye! (get goggles..I know : c) Anything in particular that i should be tested for?

HIV should be the last thing you should be worrying about if that happens. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of someone contracting HIV from sewer water. Believe it or not, even getting poked by a needle from someone who has HIV only presents a remote chance of contracting.

HIV doesn’t survive very long outside of the body anyway.

General infections should be of concern. Pink eye at number 1.

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