Oh yeah. My city poured all the sewage for the 30,000 residents directly into the river. No CSO, just 1800s stone sewer tunnels Big enough to walk through. Really awful smell in the summer
Thank you for bringing this to the people, it is important that the people know about this important matter. It is a most interesting video, thank you sir, for the time you have taken to produce it.
To elaborate on Kevin's point, combined sewer systems are a product of city planning up into the early 20th century. Most modern systems built today are separate. As kevin said, it can be quite expensive for towns to switch. It's not as simple as closing the connection between sewer and storm drain. As the video described, cities have to build someplace to store the excess water, that would otherwise be released into rivers and creeks.
I saw the video and still don't care because it annoys tree hugging wimps. I'm glad I live in a house that still flushes it's water directly into the river behind our house. I even installed a garbage disposal in my sink for maximum pollution just to piss you cowards off. And for those that don't know, in America we have a device that goes in our kitchen sink that has an electric motor that grinds up our food waste and washes it down the drain. Most times it washes out into a city sewer system. My house was built back in 1916 and managed to fall through the cracks. I have no plans to fix it either. If you don't like it, go cry to the EPA.
@@KevinBenecke >imagine being this low of a lifeform you destroy the environment just to piss people off when civilization finnally comes your ilk will be desposed of
@@kenetickups6146 And your going to accomplish this disposing of me? Bring it on then if you think you got what it takes to do it. Tell those wimps you call friends to join you.
@@KevinBenecke this is not just for tree huggers, it affects everyone since it is literally raw sewage going into the food chain and making people sick. If you eat shellfish, regular fish or hunt wild animals in areas with these combined sewage systems you are literally eating other peoples shit. Its disgusting that you do things like that just to make people mad, its not a good thing that people like you pollute our waterways and if you act like this to the wrong people you might end up floating down one
Combined sewer systems are also a basement flood waiting to happen. There are combined sewers that have no outlet at all; the sewer simply goes directly to the treatment facility. When it gets overwhelmed, the sewer pipes back up and overflow into basements.
The best thing we can do is turn off our aerators and try to save all the turds we can by sinking them to the bottom of the OX ditch… it’s a losing battle with a 5 day rainstorm
Well, that's all well and good planning water features to absorb and release water to the aquafer, BUT most of NYC has a labyrinth of subway, water, electrical, telecom and steam tunnels underneath the streets which would make it difficult if not impossible for rain water to go through to the aquafers. Don't get me wrong, this is a great idea, but is not practical in most large cities (I wish it was). Back in the early 1980's Philadelphia hired a new sanitary waste engineer. Once there he undertook a survey if Philadelphia's "combined sewer" features. What he found was totally disgusting. The system was originally designed so that during a "rain event" the initial "slug" of water would get sent through to the treatment plants then outlets along the streams and rivers would open allowing the mixture of raw sewage and rain water to flow into the creeks, the reasoning at the time they were built was it was believed that the "mixture" would be diluted enough to not cause problems. The problem was that once the "covers" opened to allow the mixture opened would not close due to lack of maintenance and they stayed open all the time allowing raw sewage to continually run into the streams and rivers. He estimated at THAT time, it would cost over 1 BILLION DOLLARS to revamp and repair JUST the outflow pipes. Needless to say the city didn't have anywhere NEAR the funding, I can only conjecture, they never got repaired. It is a common problem with a LOT of older towns and cities have been facing for YEARS and every new administration kicks the can down the road at least until the EPA steps in and provides the lions share of the money to perform the upgrades.
Why dont they invent Adopt a manhole cover... each person is a valuable member doing what it takes to ensure the cover is closed, Filling out their allocated cover is closed ensures a system where they can monitor it Consistency earns volunteers vouchers or awards for being a shit hot community asset
See my comment for retention tips. 👍 Also: Common British practice is to flush on every second or third *P* to save water - We have a mnemonic; _„If it's green, let it be. If it's brown, flush it down“_ to tell us when is the right time - And this will really help manage sewer burdens *and* save water (bills) too! 😇
It was just to much water it was going into the subways and even coming out of their toilets under presure new york will need somthing like what Tokyo built to handle storm water from Typhoons.
If every building had a 15 foot deep bassmemt to catch water and slowly let it back out into the the storm drains that would probably stop alot major city floods we as people need to try new things instead of debunking them
Sad part is, they have people like me...hard workers willing to clean up all that trash before it makes it into the sewer system...but they don't have a job like that. And anything similar to that is blocked off by so much bs and red tape. By the end of it you get criminals forced to do community service that pick up trash once in a blue moon... meanwhile someone like me are willing to clean up vast sections of road but there's no official job. Where would I go to ask the government for that kind of job? I used to do it for free but it's obviously not something you can do everyday because of rent and bills
@@mrrexychomp9829 thats why during large storms it gets dumped into Rivers and Bays 99% of the time their is no rain so the water can be treated at sewage treatment plants with ease.
UK viewer here, and trust me; We know *all* there is to know about Brexit💩 and the problems of untreated discharge! A couple of tips from me (Mostly taken from cold war CD material) to help with _deferring_ sewage disposal when there's a chance it could end up in the river: 1. If you're a single male household, collect water waste in a suitably labelled plastic bottle (Plastic milk bottles are best) kept by the toilet (Cap the bottle with a piece of toilet paper) and pour it down the drain _after_ the flood is over. Not only can this defer disposal of liquids when the sewer can't handle them, it can also be used to save water during droughts by discharging/flushing less. For the ladies who can; Employ the same method using a home-made adaptor. 👍 2. For European-style toilets; The amount of water needed might be less than a flush. Fill a small bucket with water, and learn how to pour this into the bowl such that it discharges the waste whilst using as little water as necessary. 🌊 3. In cases of emergency or drain blockage/septic failure; Human waste (And TP associated with it) can also be disposed of in the same way as dog waste, provided it's enclosed in suitably strong plastic bags. For more pleasant results, add scrunched-up newspaper to the bottom of the bag first, and store outside the house in waste containers that are kept well away from sunlight. 4. For households that are strictly vegetarian/vegan and where no meat-containing waste is produced; Veggie manure is the same as horse manure, and can be employed in the same way for agricultural purposes. However this is probably best _not_ attempted in an urban environment, except perhaps on a rooftop allotment. 🌱
@@apocalypticdaze2139 It's hard to consider in civilised areas, but trust me; This knowledge can come in _very_ useful in abnormal, emergency and wilderness scenarios. 👍
Because, by observing the supposed timeline narratives for the buildings constructed in the days of an apparent retarded sewage system, folk either didn't shot then or our entire conditioned history is utter bs... Clue, I think it's more likely the second point though I'm open to inhabitants didn't used to have bum holes to.
there are many sewer/ storm overflows along the Thames in London, the water company is in the process of sealing them up and anew catchment system thats costing billions
It’s time for Mother Earth to purge its sickness, unfortunately it’s us humans. We are over populated, and to dumb to preserve our very own ecosystem. We think technology has somehow made us better, but it has only made us dirty creatures who contaminate everything we touch. I hope we can do better in protecting what is so precious to our survival.
Wow I not alone ..sooo many people's r here for watching ... sewer ..😭
I am fascinated by sewers now
@@mrrexychomp9829 same I don’t know why
The chamber at 1:27 is actually a reinforced concrete chambers built to retrofit to the brick vaulted sewer. I built it
Looks good bro keep on building great things ! 🔥 I never worked with anything bigger then 15 inch cast iron
Is that sloped so as to avoid a lowhead dam hydraulic?
Thanks for the hard work you do for our society!
What a horrible design. I work on waste water systems and our systems do not combine storm water with sewage water.
Oh yeah. My city poured all the sewage for the 30,000 residents directly into the river. No CSO, just 1800s stone sewer tunnels
Big enough to walk through.
Really awful smell in the summer
@@ocsrc reminds me of the plumbing ive seen in rural canada. the lake becomes the treatment plant per se lol
What can you expect when anyone and their grandmother can become an engineer.
You live in what State and City? what is the name and the flow in MGDs that U work at?
Thank you for bringing this to the people, it is important that the people know about this important matter. It is a most interesting video, thank you sir, for the time you have taken to produce it.
Would you consider this topic important for the people?
@@galaxydrivein4027 Most definitely.
so in ny you can be canoeing in a river of dookie?
well said 😂
You think that's bad, try the Thames... 🌊🇬🇧💩💩💩😳
There's a reason why we invented the Brexit💩 process... 😉
Trusy me, everywhere!!
Is that com
1:27?
I really did not know any of this. This needs to be shared to every New Yorker.
Most of them would not give a shat. No pun intended
It matters.
Why don't they have it separated it's easy as that don't combine them
In older towns it might cost them too much to do so.
To elaborate on Kevin's point, combined sewer systems are a product of city planning up into the early 20th century. Most modern systems built today are separate. As kevin said, it can be quite expensive for towns to switch. It's not as simple as closing the connection between sewer and storm drain. As the video described, cities have to build someplace to store the excess water, that would otherwise be released into rivers and creeks.
I feel like if everyone seen this video people would be more conscious of how we dispose of things
I saw the video and still don't care because it annoys tree hugging wimps. I'm glad I live in a house that still flushes it's water directly into the river behind our house. I even installed a garbage disposal in my sink for maximum pollution just to piss you cowards off. And for those that don't know, in America we have a device that goes in our kitchen sink that has an electric motor that grinds up our food waste and washes it down the drain. Most times it washes out into a city sewer system. My house was built back in 1916 and managed to fall through the cracks. I have no plans to fix it either. If you don't like it, go cry to the EPA.
@@KevinBenecke
>imagine being this low of a lifeform you destroy the environment just to piss people off
when civilization finnally comes your ilk will be desposed of
@@kenetickups6146 And your going to accomplish this disposing of me? Bring it on then if you think you got what it takes to do it. Tell those wimps you call friends to join you.
@@KevinBenecke this is not just for tree huggers, it affects everyone since it is literally raw sewage going into the food chain and making people sick. If you eat shellfish, regular fish or hunt wild animals in areas with these combined sewage systems you are literally eating other peoples shit. Its disgusting that you do things like that just to make people mad, its not a good thing that people like you pollute our waterways and if you act like this to the wrong people you might end up floating down one
@@mrrexychomp9829 I'd like to see them try that. They will lose.
How about getting rid of all toilets in NYC and mandating everyone use composting toilets? Or is that not convenient for the yuppies who live there?
Sounds like you live in a port-o-potty!! GL with that...
amazing infrastructure nice video :)
Combined sewer systems are also a basement flood waiting to happen. There are combined sewers that have no outlet at all; the sewer simply goes directly to the treatment facility. When it gets overwhelmed, the sewer pipes back up and overflow into basements.
The best thing we can do is turn off our aerators and try to save all the turds we can by sinking them to the bottom of the OX ditch… it’s a losing battle with a 5 day rainstorm
City wide. What is the estimated amount of waste water discharged every year accounting for variations in rainfall amounts?
billions of gallons
Well, that's all well and good planning water features to absorb and release water to the aquafer, BUT most of NYC has a labyrinth of subway, water, electrical, telecom and steam tunnels underneath the streets which would make it difficult if not impossible for rain water to go through to the aquafers. Don't get me wrong, this is a great idea, but is not practical in most large cities (I wish it was).
Back in the early 1980's Philadelphia hired a new sanitary waste engineer. Once there he undertook a survey if Philadelphia's "combined sewer" features. What he found was totally disgusting. The system was originally designed so that during a "rain event" the initial "slug" of water would get sent through to the treatment plants then outlets along the streams and rivers would open allowing the mixture of raw sewage and rain water to flow into the creeks, the reasoning at the time they were built was it was believed that the "mixture" would be diluted enough to not cause problems. The problem was that once the "covers" opened to allow the mixture opened would not close due to lack of maintenance and they stayed open all the time allowing raw sewage to continually run into the streams and rivers. He estimated at THAT time, it would cost over 1 BILLION DOLLARS to revamp and repair JUST the outflow pipes. Needless to say the city didn't have anywhere NEAR the funding, I can only conjecture, they never got repaired. It is a common problem with a LOT of older towns and cities have been facing for YEARS and every new administration kicks the can down the road at least until the EPA steps in and provides the lions share of the money to perform the upgrades.
Why dont they invent
Adopt a manhole cover... each person is a valuable member doing what it takes to ensure the cover is closed,
Filling out their allocated cover is closed ensures a system where they can monitor it
Consistency earns volunteers vouchers or awards for being a shit hot community asset
So are we supposed to "hold it" until the storm is over?
Of course not. Just don't flush.
See my comment for retention tips. 👍
Also: Common British practice is to flush on every second or third *P* to save water - We have a mnemonic; _„If it's green, let it be. If it's brown, flush it down“_ to tell us when is the right time - And this will really help manage sewer burdens *and* save water (bills) too! 😇
It means you need bigger pipes!!!
no excuses for ruining our planet
Cool video of sewers bro!
it’s big problem of every country
Why did the pipes not working during ida?
It was just to much water it was going into the subways and even coming out of their toilets under presure new york will need somthing like what Tokyo built to handle storm water from Typhoons.
So they ticket us but they cant ticket them self
oh no
@0:14
Whoah is that the sewer system?
It looks like the city of Oz....
How do the sewer pipes look? Like those green pipes in mario bros?
Wow very cool! Thanks for sharing
every day i learn a new reason to stay away from new york
If every building had a 15 foot deep bassmemt to catch water and slowly let it back out into the the storm drains that would probably stop alot major city floods we as people need to try new things instead of debunking them
Sad part is, they have people like me...hard workers willing to clean up all that trash before it makes it into the sewer system...but they don't have a job like that. And anything similar to that is blocked off by so much bs and red tape. By the end of it you get criminals forced to do community service that pick up trash once in a blue moon... meanwhile someone like me are willing to clean up vast sections of road but there's no official job. Where would I go to ask the government for that kind of job? I used to do it for free but it's obviously not something you can do everyday because of rent and bills
good tip not to flush the toilet after you pooped or puked because it´s raining outside...
Oh ya.. Well my poop is good for the environment.. You could say "my shit dont stink" haha
Combine sewer = raw sewage water + storm run off ? Isn't that costly to treat?
its just a larger volume of water to deal with
@@mrrexychomp9829 thats why during large storms it gets dumped into Rivers and Bays 99% of the time their is no rain so the water can be treated at sewage treatment plants with ease.
How amazing
UK viewer here, and trust me; We know *all* there is to know about Brexit💩 and the problems of untreated discharge! A couple of tips from me (Mostly taken from cold war CD material) to help with _deferring_ sewage disposal when there's a chance it could end up in the river:
1. If you're a single male household, collect water waste in a suitably labelled plastic bottle (Plastic milk bottles are best) kept by the toilet (Cap the bottle with a piece of toilet paper) and pour it down the drain _after_ the flood is over. Not only can this defer disposal of liquids when the sewer can't handle them, it can also be used to save water during droughts by discharging/flushing less. For the ladies who can; Employ the same method using a home-made adaptor. 👍
2. For European-style toilets; The amount of water needed might be less than a flush. Fill a small bucket with water, and learn how to pour this into the bowl such that it discharges the waste whilst using as little water as necessary. 🌊
3. In cases of emergency or drain blockage/septic failure; Human waste (And TP associated with it) can also be disposed of in the same way as dog waste, provided it's enclosed in suitably strong plastic bags. For more pleasant results, add scrunched-up newspaper to the bottom of the bag first, and store outside the house in waste containers that are kept well away from sunlight.
4. For households that are strictly vegetarian/vegan and where no meat-containing waste is produced; Veggie manure is the same as horse manure, and can be employed in the same way for agricultural purposes. However this is probably best _not_ attempted in an urban environment, except perhaps on a rooftop allotment. 🌱
Oh... You were serious 🙄
@@apocalypticdaze2139 It's hard to consider in civilised areas, but trust me; This knowledge can come in _very_ useful in abnormal, emergency and wilderness scenarios. 👍
Talk about pollution
This video is the le shit
Interesting video!
Sounds like it’s the fault of those stagnant tributaries. They better get their asses in gear.
An excellent video. 💙 T.E.N.
Ok
Orrrrrr, reuse grey water and divert your surface water to soakaways/attenuation.
What a fuckin stupid system
Because, by observing the supposed timeline narratives for the buildings constructed in the days of an apparent retarded sewage system, folk either didn't shot then or our entire conditioned history is utter bs...
Clue, I think it's more likely the second point though I'm open to inhabitants didn't used to have bum holes to.
there are many sewer/ storm overflows along the Thames in London, the water company is in the process of sealing them up and anew catchment system thats costing billions
Divorce the goddamm sewer from the stormwater problem solved.
recent construction does that. unfortunately, it is very time consuming and expensive to upgrade old infrastructure
Heh overflow.
No use plastics
I dont think that's the problem here
Blah blah blah
then don't watch the video and contribute to nyc either by shitting or donating
why did you watch this just to say that
It’s time for Mother Earth to purge its sickness, unfortunately it’s us humans. We are over populated, and to dumb to preserve our very own ecosystem. We think technology has somehow made us better, but it has only made us dirty creatures who contaminate everything we touch. I hope we can do better in protecting what is so precious to our survival.
One day, sewage systems will be bigger than the largest cities
Non American countries use natural waterways to create a rain buffer~
Lol, like in Venice?