Where do you think the post-treatment wastewater goes?

Here's a clue:
http://www.peachtree-city.org/index.asp?NID=349

Your not to bright are you, you people think they would just take someones word about this being safe or not
your bath room is just as dirty

most sewer plants dump that same water into streams and that filters the remaining dirty water.

you drive down Mcdonnough road and they have spray fields where sewage is pumped to finish treating the water

maybe you should check to see where the water goes now

shadowalker

Is your children's health important enough for you to do actual resarch or will emotionally responding to a blurb in an amateur local paper suffice?

I have been following this story for months and researching what the EPA and other agencies have to say. Apparently, about 98% of the bacteria can be killed but NONE of the viruses. Thus, when you get kids rolling around in the grass with cuts or scrapes, water bottle mouthpieces laying on the grass, etc. you definitely have a potential for health risks. I'm sorry that you have no emotion, but I still say my kids are more important and I can't beleive PTC actually approved this with all the EPA data against it! I guess they care more about the money than the health of the kids!!!

So ... you knew that post-treatment wastewater was being dischraged into the very Line Creek that the city had been pumping from to water the fields all this time?

Get it?

For all intents a purposes, they were playing on it all along.

This is from the PTC city government website:

Rockaway WWTF
Located at 1127 Hwy 74 South

Rockaway plant - a Sequencing Batch Reactor Plant - is designed to treat four million gallons per day. All of the treatment processes take place in one tank. The sequences are coordinated through a Programmable Logic Controller. After the aeration/mixing, settling and decant phases, the effluent is filtered and disinfected with Ultra Violet Light. The discharge flows into Line Creek. See below for a process flow diagram.

So ... if they were already discharging INTO Line Creek and pulling FROM Line Creek ... well, it really does make your alarmism look rather silly and uninformed.

And oh yeah, amateur or not, I've run a POTW in my day.

You can try to justify it however you want, but there is NO way that watering baseball fields and soccer fields that children play on with treated sewage water is acceptable!

Look at the flow diagram for a PTC POTW:

http://www.peachtree-city.org/images/pages/N349/image001.jpg

Clearly you can see that your dreaded, scary poo water is being discharged into Line Creek after treatment.

Your poo water is in Line Creek. Get it?

The article said that the city HAD been pumping water out of Line Creek to water the fields.

Some of it evaporates too and ends up God-knows-where. Good luck tracking all that down. Guess what ... your children end up playing baseball on some of it somewhere down the line in the water cycle.

But why listen to reason when you can get all emotional over some scare story dreamed up by an "environmentalist" that evidently didn't realize PTC discharges post-treatment wastewater to Line Creek.

The water taken directly from the waste treatment center is NOT the same as the water taken from Line Creek, even though it eventually ends up there anyway.
To quote Dennis Chase from an interview on "The Ben Show,"
"...when the sewage effluent goes through a still wetland pond for three to four days, by the time the water comes out the other end, the viruses are all gone. What happens is, the viruses die in open water, but it has to be over a period of several days."

...whereas the viruses from the treated sewage remain alive for two to three weeks when applied to the fields.

So it's not safe.
Is there anything we can do?

Your point is made, but please be civil. The anonymity of the internet doesn't excuse rudeness.
Perhaps the water-saving measure is benign to the health of our children. But the concern was certainly valid, especially if brought up by someone so experienced and knowledgeable as Dennis Chase. He's no "'environmentalist'" to dream up false concerns. He was a fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service for over 26 years. And he's still working with the state's environmental conscience over water concerns, volunteering with Fayette County's Line Creek Association. My personal experience with him is through the McIntosh Adopt-A-Stream organization, to which he lends his services, training volunteers and reviewing data collected by the students.
So if he says it's a problem, I'm willing to take a second look.

Is usually many times cleaner than the normal water pumped directly out of a river or creek. Water away.

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The Sissy And The Word Defined

In Florida treated wastewater is used to water golf courses, which I find appropriate, since they are a waste of resources in the first place.

We have a watering ban currently. Does anyone have any idea how this will effect the playing surfaces in not only PTC but GA? If we didnt pass this the fields would have been closed. Other fields in PTC will be closed if a ban is not lifted. How will this effect things....Limiting registration numbers in all sports due to lack of field space (yes sports will use/share the treated fields)

Ban PTC sports.....Check the other areas and you maybe suprised to find out they are looking at any and all options as well. May leagues in GA are shutting down or praying for a lifted ban.