After not much activity from InsideBuffalo in a while there are some new articles that have hit the online magazine. These articles may answer some questions that have been raised concerning some of the Town of Buffalo's latest events.
I have posted links to two of the articles below. Come back to this BLOG and leave comments and raise unanswered questions. Anonymous posting is available to use but please don't abuse it.
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ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT
http://insidebuffalo.net/index-20.php
Buffalo Oklahoma Town Board
Hikes Pay by 5%
http://insidebuffalo.net/index-44.php
Friday, December 5, 2008
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The article regarding the sewer ponds is interesting. However, despite the author's carefull explanation of flow rate vs evaporation and acreage needed, let me ask this simple question. When my family moved here in 1964, the population of buffalo was between 1800 and 2000 people. Every building in town had a business. ie. 3 barber shops, 8 service stations, 3 grocery stores, 2 drug stores, 1 carpet store, 3 car dealerships, one body shop, 3 restaurants, 2 lumber yards, and many more businesses. The sewer ponds were the same size then and seemed to handle the larger population and larger business load just fine. Why, if it handled all that, does it seem to have a problem now, with 600 to 800 less people living here and bookoos less business's???? Not being a smart *ss. Just curious as to why the failure is occurring with the smaller population?
ReplyDeleteGood question Tommy. These come to mind rather quickly...Whirlpool garden bathtubs, taking more than one shower daily, automatic dishwashers, large capacity washing machines.....??? Another issue is I believe that back when the lagoons were designed they only used 50% of the annual rain so that would give almost 14 more inches of evaporation to the formula and thus reducing the size needed. The formula is for todays lifestyles. Wouldn't it be nice if the town would invite the engineer to a board meeting to answer some questions. I know that they would accept the invitation.
ReplyDeleteOver the years the lagoons, or ponds, have filled with silt, sludge, and other solids settling to the bottom of the ponds, thereby raising their levels and reducing the depths.
ReplyDeleteAlso contributing to the problems are various contaminants including soil particles and other sediment, heavy metals & organic compounds.
The Town has attempted, over the years, evidently without permits or authority, to raise the embankments rather than address the issue of silt, sludge and solids in the bottom of the ponds.
Typically wastewater lagoon-type processing facilities will maintain sludge removal by composting these elements or by aerobic digestion or more costly anaerobic digestion.
Many times the sludge is de-liquefied and transformed into fertilizer.