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Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Discharges of treated produced-water to surface waters are eligible for coverage under this general permit. There are two types of facilities generating these discharges. Exploration and Production (E&P) Waste Management Facilities are generally within an oil gas field; Commercial Disposal Facilities are generally offsite, receives E&P wastes and other types of waste waters.
84) Poop fountain!
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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Three friends spend Christmas day breaking into the town of Crickenburg's antiquated sewage treatment plant in order to witness with their own eyes the soon-to-be-replaced "poop fountain."
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In Where Does Water Go?, early fluent readers follow water as it leaves the home and travels either to a septic tank or a wastewater treatment plant. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about what happens to water after it is flushed or goes down the drain. An infographic illustrates the steps of the process with real photos and descriptions. Children can learn more about wastewater using...
86) Trapped under the sea: one engineering marvel, five men, and a disaster ten miles into the darkness
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Documents the disastrous 1990s mission during which two members of a five-man diving team were killed while completing construction on a ten-mile tunnel at the end of Boston's Deer Island waste treatment plant.
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Pub. Date
[2009].
Description
"You can keep your septic system running day-after-day, year-after-year. First published in 1984, Country Plumbing, in its initial edition, went through eight printings and has educated and entertained thousands of country dwellers who live beyond the reach of public sewer systems. Now, with the new appendix by Mike Haupt, this edition contains information about of the more recent developments in the world of private sewage treatment facilities. Even...
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Pub. Date
c2005
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In the United States, humans take flush toilets for granted. You take your dump into a large bowl of drinking water, then flush it. End of story. That's the civilized thing to do. But where does the flushed material go? What would happen if everyone in the world crapped in their drinking water supplies? Why doesn't any other land mammal defecate deliberately in water? Why do we? These all seem like questions any reasonably curious person would ask...
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Pub. Date
c1999
Description
"Humanure; waste or resource? Joseph Jenkins boldly steps where no author has gone before. Considered by many a "moving" book, The Humanure Handbook will surprise you with its timely relevance, delight you with its humor, and impress you with its thorough research. Full of "eye-candy" illustrations, practical information, history, philosophy, and science, it addresses an issue relevant to each and every human being on Planet Earth."--BOOK JACKET.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"From the author of The Humanure Handbook, an expert guide to compost toilets you can build yourself. The Compost Toilet Handbook is an illustrated instructional manual explaining how to make, use, and manage compost toilets, which are waste-free toilets that rely on the biological process of composting to recycle toilet material. It is based on the author's 40+ years of first-hand experience with 'composting as a sanitation alternative.' The 254-page...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly...
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