More Helene gnashing (morning writing)
Taking today off for yard work. Have someone coming out to help at 8:30.
I sat outside one morning this week on the glider on the back porch. It seems all the freeking itchy bug (mite?) bites i got correlated with that sitting. They have been itching all week, worse in the evening as the daily antihistamine draws down. The lounge, where i sat outside this summer, got caught in a deluge and then i keep forgetting it before dew fall. Hopefully it can dry all the way out this weekend. I don't know how best to fumigate the cushions or if replacement is the better choice. Maybe more sitting the cushions in the sun and applying diatomaceous earth.
I've been reading the Department of Environmental Quality's website about Helene impacts. Sooner or later someone will sit down and calculate how much sewage spilled. The sanitary impact of the places without functional waste water treatment plants.....
In Sherwood, near Cove Creek Elementary school, "No power, full of mud. Electric box and blower box are displaced. Fence is destroyed. Influent is full of mud. Not salvageable."
Near Three Top Mountain on Buffalo Creek (West Jefferson?) "WWTP has been washed out & is completely gone."
Balfour/Henderson, south of Asheville (built up area) "Plant is currently not discharging because there is no influent, He believes from Friday around 8-10am, to Saturday to 8-10am the plant was at constant overflow until the influent line broke somewhere. Approx 10 mil (probably overestimated) spill due to overflow at plant. From collections he's expecting about 2.8MGD is spilling somewhere since there is no flow to the plant." MGD -- mega gallons? I dunno. Sounds like way more crap going into the French Broad River watershed than one wants.
The way rivers wind through the Appalachian mountains and Cumberland plateau on their way to the Mississippi is torturous. Someone asked in Asheville once how long it would take the water to flow to the gulf of Mexico, with back-of-napkin estimate of the roughly 2000 miles of river to be 41 days. There are dams, so the reported propane tanks and coffins floating away will stop much earlier. (Yes, i listened to a press conference from a Tennessee county which included acknowledgement of the challenge in gas and propane restoration, and the thought of propane tanks in big piles of woody debris ... well, that's just great. Also, look at those leaves, a-changing. Might need heat soon.)
All the infrastructure wins in Appalachia were hard won, and not really enough, and ....
In personally selfish news, my watershed seems spared. We have enough issues with the city water getting PFAS and a 1,4-dioxane spills from Burlington.
Yadkin and Catawba watersheds have a mess coming downstream.
post-tags: morning writing
I sat outside one morning this week on the glider on the back porch. It seems all the freeking itchy bug (mite?) bites i got correlated with that sitting. They have been itching all week, worse in the evening as the daily antihistamine draws down. The lounge, where i sat outside this summer, got caught in a deluge and then i keep forgetting it before dew fall. Hopefully it can dry all the way out this weekend. I don't know how best to fumigate the cushions or if replacement is the better choice. Maybe more sitting the cushions in the sun and applying diatomaceous earth.
I've been reading the Department of Environmental Quality's website about Helene impacts. Sooner or later someone will sit down and calculate how much sewage spilled. The sanitary impact of the places without functional waste water treatment plants.....
In Sherwood, near Cove Creek Elementary school, "No power, full of mud. Electric box and blower box are displaced. Fence is destroyed. Influent is full of mud. Not salvageable."
Near Three Top Mountain on Buffalo Creek (West Jefferson?) "WWTP has been washed out & is completely gone."
Balfour/Henderson, south of Asheville (built up area) "Plant is currently not discharging because there is no influent, He believes from Friday around 8-10am, to Saturday to 8-10am the plant was at constant overflow until the influent line broke somewhere. Approx 10 mil (probably overestimated) spill due to overflow at plant. From collections he's expecting about 2.8MGD is spilling somewhere since there is no flow to the plant." MGD -- mega gallons? I dunno. Sounds like way more crap going into the French Broad River watershed than one wants.
The way rivers wind through the Appalachian mountains and Cumberland plateau on their way to the Mississippi is torturous. Someone asked in Asheville once how long it would take the water to flow to the gulf of Mexico, with back-of-napkin estimate of the roughly 2000 miles of river to be 41 days. There are dams, so the reported propane tanks and coffins floating away will stop much earlier. (Yes, i listened to a press conference from a Tennessee county which included acknowledgement of the challenge in gas and propane restoration, and the thought of propane tanks in big piles of woody debris ... well, that's just great. Also, look at those leaves, a-changing. Might need heat soon.)
All the infrastructure wins in Appalachia were hard won, and not really enough, and ....
In personally selfish news, my watershed seems spared. We have enough issues with the city water getting PFAS and a 1,4-dioxane spills from Burlington.
Yadkin and Catawba watersheds have a mess coming downstream.
post-tags: morning writing