Call me crazy, but why are we so concerned about this? We all know what happens to the waste on the boats. Everyone that I know just pumps it overboard. There are not any pump out stations on the river in the Pittsburgh pool. It is what it is. Heck, Penn Hills dumps millions of gallons of raw sewage every night from their treatment plant in the Allegheny River. When I stay the night at the marina that I dock at, you wake up every morning with sewage floating on top of the water. It is all nice and foamy from being stirred up when it flows over the Highland Park Dam. Elizabeth Township dumps on average 8 million gallons of sewage a day in the Yough at Boston, PA which then flows into the Mon. We can post the regulations all we want, but it isn't changing anything. Sorry, just my 2 cents worth.
Greg,
Are you talking about raw sewage? Dumped into the Allegheny and Yough? I thought that only happened after heavy rains?
yuck i guess we should stop drinking the water and eating the candy canes and gum drops
From the article posted it looks like 1 million gallons per day on bad days and the 8 million was a few bad days. Some days they do not have any overflow.
I was starting to think we would need to stop going into the Mon, although think about how dilute even 8 million gallons would be by the time it hits the Southside area.
Penn Hills dumps into the Allegheny below 9 mile island above the Highland Park Dam. No matter what, until they get all of the sewers fixed, there is going to be a problem. Let's just hope that it is all diluted by the time we swim in the rivers on the weekends.
Originally Posted by JoeLeaphorn
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