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2007-03-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Omorong Slomoger2729 2007-03-30 11:30|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just so long as it wasn't pig's blood; that'd get the turbans in a knot.

Posted by Bobby 2007-03-30 13:17|| 2007-03-30 13:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Memo to self: Minneapolis is going to become a vampire tourism destination.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-03-30 15:49|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-03-30 15:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Ruh-roh! They better watch for frogs.

Posted by Slineth Oppressor of the Infinitesmal8651 2007-03-30 17:11|| 2007-03-30 17:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Dang! Forgot to turn my nic back. Apologies.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-03-30 17:13|| 2007-03-30 17:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Discharging wastes, like blood, dairy, ground up fish waste, etc. is usually covered by permit. Wastes like these have high BOD (biochemical oxygen demand), which means that they put a higher demand on sewage treatment plants, or require bigger plants. In order to maintain the required treated wastewater quality, as stated in their operating permits, wastewater operators have to know what they are getting, and if they have the ability to treat it. Treated wastewater, depending on where you discharge it, has to be between 15 and 45 parts per million BOD, with total suspended solids down to about the same level, in addition, it must be disinfected with UV or chlorine to kill any remaining pathogens.

BOD in normal wastewater is 350 ppm or 350 milligrams oxygen per liter of wastewater.
Breweries 550 ppm
Slaughterhouses: 2500 ppm
Pulpmills 25000ppm

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-30 17:13|| 2007-03-30 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 "Blood just all over my face, in my mouth, I could taste it. It was terrible. I had it in my mouth and I kept spitting and I couldn't get rid of it,"

Would he prefer shit?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-03-30 17:17|| 2007-03-30 17:17|| Front Page Top

#7 And, if you are a first-born son living nearby, watch out!

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-03-30 18:35|| 2007-03-30 18:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Pulpmills 25000ppm

? Why is that?

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-03-30 19:25|| 2007-03-30 19:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Ship, pulpmills take ground-up trees, soak the chips in water and put this with several other chemicals (called black liquor and white liquor)into a vessel called a digester that is then put under pressure and heat. The smell from pulp mills is mainly sulfur dioxide. The water is drained off and in most cases is not cooled. This warm water coupled with the residual vegetable matter and sulfur compounds is hard to treat. It takes a lot of water to run a pulp mill and that's why they are located next to rivers. The waste water has to be cooled and treated in order to retyrn it to the river.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-03-30 20:12|| 2007-03-30 20:12|| Front Page Top

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