The Sewer Tour

[Khunajawdge]

In 2010 I plan to disembark on an MC ride/tour of water treatment facilities.

I am thinking of riding south to take a tour of this one;

https://www.clui.org/lotl/lotlv11/metwater.html

Where I live (Los Osos) on the CenCalCoast, we don't have one of these yet, yet some of those who live here and want to move here, seem to think that we need one?

I aim to find out what this is all about!

Send me a PM to join me on tour (if you dare).

 

[MEM]

In 2010 I plan to disembark on an MC ride/tour of water treatment facilities.
I am thinking of riding south to take a tour of this one;

https://www.clui.org/lotl/lotlv11/metwater.html

Where I live (Los Osos) on the CenCalCoast, we don't have one of these yet, yet some of those who live here and want to move here, seem to think that we need one?

I aim to find out what this is all about!

Send me a PM to join me on tour (if you dare).

Water treatment facilities? You a civil engineer by any chance ?!

 

[Khunajawdge]

Water treatment facilities? You a civil engineer by any chance ?!

No, I'm not a Civil engineer. I live in a community with a problem and would like to make my self a more informed citizen.

If interested in our problem? you can read about it here In the Sewer

 

[madmike2]

Water treatment facilities? You a civil engineer by any chance ?!

No, I'm not a Civil engineer. I live in a community with a problem and would like to make my self a more informed citizen.

If interested in our problem? you can read about it here In the Sewer

I thought the one you were going to visit is a water pressure regulating station. If I read it correctly, the plant is used to control the gravitational affect on the water being pumped over the mountain and into the Sepulveda Canyon. It's not a sewage treatment plant.

So, George, do you want the rest of us from CA to take photos of our local treatment plants? We could post them here or start a new Ride Report. Should we start a poll for a title?

1.) California, in the tank.

2.) Californians are full of $#!+

3.) Sewage of CA

4.) It DOES run down hill

5.) Treatment of California

6.) Crappy California

7.)

Seriously, there are other facilities all across the Central Valley to treat the waste water because of incursion into the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers. One would assume the same issues are confronted there as any possible effluent/pollution of the coastline.

No, I am not an engineer....my daughter married one who specializes in ground water contamination.

 

[Khunajawdge]

'madmike2'

"I thought the one you were going to visit is a water pressure regulating station. If I read it correctly, the plant is used to control the gravitational affect on the water being pumped over the mountain and into the Sepulveda Canyon. It's not a sewage treatment plant."

Well sometimes the stuff does need to run up hill, no?

Mike asked -

"So, George, do you want the rest of us from CA to take photos of our local treatment plants? We could post them here or start a new Ride Report. Should we start a poll for a title?"

1.) California, in the tank.

2.) Californians are full of $#!+

3.) Sewage of CA

4.) It DOES run down hill

5.) Treatment of California

6.) Crappy California

7.) Too many of us using water and not...?

That would be great Mike! Let's set up a poll!

Mike wrote;

"Seriously, there are other facilities all across the Central Valley to treat the waste water because of incursion into the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers. One would assume the same issues are confronted there as any possible effluent/pollution of the coastline."

Yes, the Central Valley has been referred to as a cesspool and so has the coast line! I am not sure about what all that means, but I'd like to take a closer look! :blink:

 

[puppychow]

You need a rat bike for the sewer tour...

 

[Khunajawdge]

You need a rat bike for the sewer tour...

No, you won't need a rat bike for this one; https://www.scottsvalley.org/wastewater_rec..._recycling.html

Apparently, the reclamation center was built before the lock gate community. It is one of the

"best" examples of water treatment/reclamation facilities in the State.

After they give you the tour, they give you a complementary glass of refreshing reclaimed water, Ummmmm!

On my calendar for the 6th of February. Anybody else?

 

[Khunajawdge]

I am canceling this one due to a "gloomy" weather forecast for the weekend of the 6th and 7th for this area. Sewer Tour to be resumed!

I am still holding onto this one the following weekend

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Oh, Doug is out of the above! He can't get outa the mountains up north to ride south, due to snow!

 

[JREW]

A few years ago I lived and worked in the City of Fairfield. At the time, the city had just finished building what was then a state of the art water treatment plant. I don't live there any longer and don't know if they still give tours, but at the time they did.

 

[Fred W]

Damnation Jawge! You gotta get yer head right...

The only kind'a "water treatment plants" I'd be interested in are this kind.

Those 17th century monks knew more than you might imagine about water treatment!! :thumbsup:

 

[Big Shasta]

Damnation Jawge! You gotta get yer head right...
The only kind'a "water treatment plants" I'd be interested in are this kind.

Those 17th century monks knew more than you might imagine about water treatment!! :thumbsup:

I'm with that, fellow belgian beer lover.

 

[Khunajawdge]

Damnation Jawge! You gotta get yer head right...
The only kind'a "water treatment plants" I'd be interested in are this kind.

Those 17th century monks knew more than you might imagine about water treatment!! :thumbsup:

Fred -

My head is right (actually left), but my favorite beer in the whole world comes from monks where I have adopted the name I use on this Forum = Khunajawdge. In Thailand, my friends call me that. It means Mr. George. The word for mister is Khun, and Thais normally pronounce George as Jawdge, so I am = Khun-a-Jawdge!

The "best" known Thai beer is Singha. It comes from here as ordered in Thailand Bier Singh

More info on Singha Beer company can be seen here also Boon Rawd

Bier Singh is a beer made from the water of one of the worlds great rivers originating in the Himalayas. After flowing south through the Golden Triangle it is sucked from the Chao Phraya River (Mae Nam Chao Phraya) in Bangkok near Nontaburi where it is treated, and then used to brew Singha Lager. Some say that Singhas piquant flavor comes from the addition of a slight bit of formaldehyde? It could also be because of local water treatment processes? I never visited a water treatment facility in Thailand, but I will next time I'm there :skull:

All's I can say is, I've sampled quite a few of these over the past 10 years or so, both in country and stateside and either because my taste buds are already partially dead (probably from eating too much spicy Thai food), or its because I've gotten used to the flavor of Bier Singh, I can't really say. :drinks:

Furthermore, I have posted somewhere in Ride Reports, a short journal of my travels in Thailand by Motorcycle, if you are so inclined as to look it up? :rambo:

Cheers, and I really am looking forward to commencing with my Sewer Tour after this current rain outside lets up.

 

[dcarver]

KJ, what do you hope to learn from your sewer adventures? I'm intrigued, and would like to ride with you if time/circumstance permits. A wonderful thing about you is you think so differently than I do. Wait a minute, maybe it's just because you think? :rofl:

Yer friend... Don

 

[Fred W]

Not to appear to be a beer snob (even if I are one) but your apparent affinity for Singha certainly helps explain your desire to make this tour.

IOW - yes, I've had it. Once. Blech. uke:

Almost as bad a San Miguel from the PI, which people seem to have the same unexplainable fond memories of. Perhaps it is better when ordered fresh in Thailand, but I'm betting it has more to do with the ambiance than the actual flavor. I guess that's why they say: "There is no accounting for personal tastes."

"Life is too short for bad beer" -anon

 

[Khunajawdge]

"Life is too short for bad beer" -anon

There is a particular reason why someone such as myself would begin to drink Singha beer daily. When living and working in Bangkok Thailand I began to develop a taste for it, due to a daily pass time which is called Rush Hour Traffic Jam or Rottit Mak Mak. If one must be out in the center of the city any time after 4:00PM or before 7:30 PM, then the best thing to do is hole up at an air con bar or restaurant and wait it out. This chronic situation will force anyone to drink a Singha or 2 and have a bite to eat as well, before making it back to home. The temperature outside is 90 + and the humidity is also around 90 with no wind. Coupled with the non catalytic converters on everything from the ubiquious Tuk Tuks to municipal buses made by Mercedes that run with raw diesel spewing exhaust (CO2 and sulphur dioxide) out into the avenues, the city’s breathable environment is nothing less than toxic.

I loved working in Thailand, but after a year and a half of it, I became sick from the fumes (bronchitis) and had to depart Thailand and may never be able to return. It took me 6 months to recover. The best of this experience in my life was, I was finally able to kick the smoking habit. I had to make a choice between smoking or breathing. And I decided that breathing was the way to go. I still have a taste for Singha beer though, which will probably stay with me for the rest of my life.

Currently where I live, my life here in the USA is threatened by un pure water quality due to underdeveloped waste disposal systems. I want to inform myself about this problem and potential solutions by visiting and documenting successful facilities. This tour will be used to gather information so that I can lend informed discussion and dialog in order to assist in addressing the symptoms of water pollution before they become a disease in my community. Thus the Sewer Tour.