General Water Issues
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Septic Smart Week is an EPA sponsored program in collaboration with many different organizations and companies in the onsite wastewater treatment industry. The overall purpose of the week is to provide information on protecting the onsite wastewater treatment system or as we commonly call it — the septic system. On the EPA webpage here is…
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Aquifers are the source of water for many in the state of Georgia and Nationwide as well as Worldwide. Aquifers are the source of groundwater which is used by many for various purposes such as drinking, household uses, agriculture, food processing and many- many other uses. I wrote a Post here a few years ago…
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Today December 5, 2024 is World Soil Day. A day that the USDA NRCS describes as: “World Soil Day is a unique global platform designed to celebrate soil and empower governments, organizations, communities, and citizens around the world to improve soil health. This year’s theme, “Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage,” underscores the importance of…
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Water is one of those things that gets recycled and recycled and recycled and I could go on and on. Have you ever heard that the water we are drinking today was also drank by the dinosaurs? Image from https://www.redbubble.com/i/coasters/Boba-drinking-dinosaur-by-Ginge297/54007707.E5I3N As such finding ways to recycle water is and has been part of what some…
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As I was looking through the April 5, 2023 online issue of the Treatment Plant Operator magazine, I saw a story that combined wastewater treatment and safeguarding a trout fishery in Arkansas. The story talks about how the design engineers blended the E.A. Aerotor Plant into the local landscape. Another story about the plant is…
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If you are interested in protecting rivers and waterbodies in the State of Georgia, one way to do that is to find and join a Rivers Alive Group or start your own. Rivers Alive is a program administered out of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division Outreach Program. There are many different…
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This past week (30-31 March) we held the 2023 Georgia Water Resources Conference . The conference is a bi-annual conference that brings water professionals, students, consultants, and citizens together to discuss water resource issues. This years conference covered topics from Regional Water Plans, the Infrastructure Bill, Stormwater management, and wastewater monitoring to name a few.…
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I would like to share a Quote from the January 2023 Municipal Water and Sewer magazine: “Young people need to be involved with water because this is our future, our planet. What inspires me is the fact that people are becoming more and more aware of water issues.” As an Extension Water Resource Specialist here…
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Managing water is a unique thing, in really wet times we have to figure out how to best capture what we need and then release the rest while trying to figure out how to keep too much water from resulting in floods. in really dry times, how do we manage the lack or water or…